Mikhail gorbachev has passed away. We look back on his life and his strong ties to the u. S. During the 80s. And former President Trump and the department of justice continue their staredown. The steps mr. Trump is taking to defend himself after evidence was seized from his florida estate. The news at 5 30 starts right now. Thanks for joining us. Im janelle wang. And im raj mathai. An east bay man is accused of putting cameras inside a bathroom located at a busy starbucks location right on main street in walnut creek. Today that man made his first court appearance. Lets bring in pete suratos. Reporter behind the glass is Steven Novelli appearing in a martinez courtroom for the First Time Since being arrested last week. He is accused of installing hidden cameras inside the bathroom of this starbucks on main street in walnut creek. Today those who visited the store say the story has left them rattled. I think its terrible that people have to do things like this. Reporter the d. A. s office tells me the cameras were hidden under the sink inside of a unisex bathroom and were pointing directly at the toilet. Today we found man who says he has been coming to this starbucks for 20 years. We caught him as he was heading inside today with his teenaged daughter. Thats horrible because a lot of kids come in here. This is a huge place, especially if you come weekends. All the parents come with their kids and families come in here. Reporter and his daughter added that many of her friends go shopping in the area. And will usually hang out at this specific starbucks. So many girls go to that store and come and get starbucks over here and probably use that bathroom and everything. Reporter the d. A. Says theyre not ruling out the possibility that other businesses may have also been targeted. Its in downtown walnut creek next to several child facilities such as a ballet school. Its next to several shopping areas. For example, broadway plaza. Reporter so far the District Attorneys Office says they have identified 39 victims who came to the starbucks on june 4th and july 23rd. If you were at the starbucks on these days and have any information, Walnut Creek Police would like to talk to you. In walnut creek, pete suratos, nbc bay area news. New at 5 00 tonight, mikhail gorbachev, the leader of the soviet union credited with ending the cold war has died at the age of 91. Gorbachev introduced greater openness, culturally and economically to the communist hard line country. He was also known for working with then president Ronald Reagan on an arms agreement that eliminated an entire class of Nuclear Weapons and started the withdrawal of most such weapons from eastern europe. While gorbachev was credited with reforming the soviet union, he was also blamed by critics for its collapse when it broke into 15 separate nations. Gorbachev was respected by other World Leaders and remained active through his gorbachev foundation. This thursday, President Biden will address the country to talk about the soul of the nation as we approach the midterm election. Today the president was in wilkesbarre, pennsylvania. He laid out the framework for his plan to Fund Community policing and gun reform. This thursdays speech will be at a symbolic location outside Independence Hall in philadelphia. The president is expected to focus on how americas rights and freedoms are still under attack. You can see the president ial address right here on nbc bay area thursday evening, the exact time has not yet been announced. Truth social, the social media platform founded by President Trump remains unavailable on the google play store. That Android Users who make up 34 of smartphone users can not download it. Going. Says it lacks systems for generating moderator content which violates terms of service. Mr. Trump has four million followers on this platform. Well, speaking of mr. Trump, the deadline is nearing by the end of the day, the department of justice has to respond to former President Trumps requests. He wants a special master to review evidence seized during the search of his maralago estate. Nbcs alice barr has the latest from washington. Reporter today its the Justice Departments turn in the high stakes back and forth over classified documents seized from former President Trumps maralago estate. A federal judge ordered the president to respond today to the former president s call to an independent special master to review the evidence and determine if anything should be returned. The judge signaling shes inclined to grant the request after a hearing thursday. She may think in a high profile case, and they dont get much more high profile than this one, that having a neutral third party is better for everybody in the long run. Reporter but the Justice Department says its already filtered through the material and set aside what could be protected under Attorney Client privilege. We need a judge to monitor our access to these documents. I do believe that the Trump Legal Team is looking to use this as an overall delay. Reporter a Third Party Review could slow the investigation and the National SecurityDamage Assessment the Community Community wants to conduct. Its documents have been spilled so to speak, it could be we have sources overseas whose lives are in danger. Reporter the white house insisting President Biden did not ask for that assessment, and has not been briefed. The president pushing toward the midterms today in battleground pennsylvania, where he hopes to seize the traditionally republican law and Order Campaign message. President biden pointing to Trump Supporters attacks on the fbi following the maralago search. Its sickening to see the new attacks on the fbi. Threatening the life of Law Enforcement agents and their families. Reporter and seeking to highlight his administrations increased funding for police. Also today, after having some past difficulties lining up lawyers, the Trump Legal Team is adding a new attorney to its ranks. He is floridas former solicitor general and some analysts think his entry marks an elevated legal fight from this point on. Alice barr, nbc news. Alice, thank you. Making Online Platforms safer for kids, the bill just cleared a big hurdle in california state senate. The bill is called the age appropriate design kodak. It requires safeguards for yearses under 18, including defaulting to thighest privacy settings and sending an obvious signal to minors when their location is being monitored by a parent or guardian. It bans the use of socalled dark patterns or tricks to secure users towards a is effect choice. If the president signs it could take effect in two years. A landmark bill to increase the minimum wage for fast food workers up to 22 an hour. This would apply next year. It would also create a council to negotiate on behalf of fast food workers. Lawmakers passed the bill last night. Supporters say this gives workers a much needed voice in the industry. But opponents say the fast food chains will only get pricier and force Small Businesses out of the state. Ukraines members met members of the National Atomic team in kyiv. President zelenskyy renewed calls for russias Occupying Forces to withdraw from the Nuclear Power plant, europes largest. The United NationsWatchdog Team son an Urgent Mission to safeguard the plant against a radioactive catastrophe. The dangers are so high, officials handed out antiradiation iodine tablets to nearby residents. The u. N. Group will assess damage to determine the functionality of the plant and evaluate the control room staff working conditions. Relief is on the way from ukraine. The first ship carrying grain from that country has docked at the horn of africa port of djibouti. Its part of the United Nations program to bring food to the hungriest parts of the world. Areas of east africa are suffering from deadly drought and conflict. There are 23,000 tons of grain on this ship. But experts say its just a drop in the bucket for the worst hit countries of somalia, kenya and ethiopia. As of sunday, 114 ships carrying more than 110 tons of food commodities has left ukraine for starving parts of the world, but the exports fall short of the exports ukraine had before the russian invasion. A sea drone seized in the persian gulf. The u. S. Navy says irans military seized and later released an american sea drone. A spokesperson for the navy said the iranian boat was towing the drone behind it as a u. S. Navy ship and helicopter approached it. Thats when the navy called repeatedly to the iranians who ultimately let the drone go. Iran did not immediately acknowledge the incident. This comes over heighten tensioned over Irans Nuclear deal with world powers. Nasa going for take two. We learned that nasa is the mission was scrapped yesterday because of a technical issue with an engine. While artemis has a lot of support from congress, the program has cost billions more and taken far longer than expected to lift off. Nasa chief bill nelson says thats not a problem. Its over budget. Its behind schedule. Is this program jinxed . To the contrary, you know, folks said the same thing about the james webb space telescope. Twice as long, twice as much money. Look what that telescope is telling us and will tell us for the next 20 years. When the rocket does fly, no astronauts will be on board this capsule. Instead, three test dummies will be strapped in to orbit the moon for six weeks. Now if this mission is successful, the next mission would have astronauts orbiting the moon. And then in 2025, the Third Mission would have them landing on the moon for the first time in 50 years. Switching from nasa to spacex, the Company Wants to put more of its starlink satellites into orbit tonight. The rocket is taking off around 10 40 p. M. From Vandenburgh Air Force base near santa barbara. Depending on the weather, that launch could be seen for hundreds of miles, mostly in central and southern california. Starlink is meant to bring high Speed Internet anywhere in the world with a focus on rural areas. As of march, spacex says it has around a quarter million subscribers. Harsh weather has crippled many parts of mississippi. Look at this. Up next, the desperate need for clean water in some of the states biggest cities. Tonight weve got a viewer with a fivefigure check that his bank will not cash. Im consumer investigator chris chmura, nbc bay area responds, next. Im jeff ranieri. So far this summer, six days at 100 and hotter. Well add to this in a big way and temperatures will go over and temperatures will go over that 106. Whats the difference between prop 26 and prop 27 . 26 . Not one dime to get people off the streets and into housing 27 generates hundreds of million to help solve homelessness. The choice is clear yes on prop 27. Whats the difference between prop 26 and prop 27 . 26 is a money grab that doesnt guarantee a cent for nongaming tribes. 27 requires 15 of all state revenues go to nongaming tribes. The choice is clear. Yes, on 27. Tonight we respond to a south bay man who had a fivefigure check he couldnt cash. Thats a chunk of money. Our consumer investigator chris chmura is on the case. What do you have . Reporter we want to talk about barry. He did something a little unusual in cupertino. Back in 2017, he put money away for a rainy day by purchasing a wells fargo cashiers check, and a whopper too, 11,564 bucks on it. This past july, he had to make a payment, pay some bills. Got to do that. So he asked wells fargo to cash the check. Barry told him the check was old and they had sent the money to the state unclaimed property office. Soy was really upset. I skt them why was it my problem and not yours . They said we didnt have the money anymore. Reporter so barry asked us to check out his issue. We asked wells fargo to take a second look. And within two weeks, the bank let barry deposit his 11,000 dollars check. Wells fargo sent us a statement. It didnt really explain what happened here, but it did say our unclaimed Property Group was able to make the customer whole before the funds were sent to the state. Okay. Barrys cashiers check was five years old. So heres what we did. We contacted the state treasure. We looked it up online and found that the treasure does not recommend keeping them that long. In fact, it says three years is the benchmark here. Cash any cashiers check within three years of the date of issuance, or return them to the bank for reissue. Get them again. So if you let a cashiers check sit for longer than three years, remember, the state says a bank might just send that money to unclaimed property. And barry recommends you ask your bank about the terms right when you get a cashiers check. And i agree with you, barry. Thanks for sending us your case. If you are having trouble cashing in on, well, anything, i guess, that youve paid for, youre not getting what you think you paid for, let us know. Go to nbcbayarea. Com. Click the responds option from the main menu or give us a buzz the oldfashioned way, 888996tips. Under the mattress probably is the only way i would probably recommend south of the cashiers check. Probably not the best place to stash your money. Do you get a lot of calls and emails and texts . Thousands and thousands and thousands since we started back in 2016. Keep them coming, please. We love it. Thanks, chris. See ya. The fda is expected to give emergency authorization to the new covid booster any day now. As the wait continues, nbc news got an exclusive look inside the pfizer facility making this new vaccine. We got special permission to take you inside the formation room and the filtration room where the shot is being prepared. The tanks may look a little like a brewery, theyre actually mixing up a vaccine formula that targets the omicron variant. Vaccine vials are being stocked in freezers all at the ready to be shipped. Tonight on nightly news, pfizers chief Global Supply officer explains how many doses are boxed up and how pfizer plans to keep up with demand. Tonight at 6 30. Jackson, mbs has a water problem. They cant produce safe drinking water. The problem started following heavy rains and flooding. It damaged storage tanks, pumps, and water pressure. The governor says some progress is being made, but the situation is far from being resolved. As we speaks, we are drafting a state of Emergency Declaration with regards to jacksons failure to produce running water. It means the city cannot produce enough water to fight fires, to reliably flush toilet, and to meet other critical needs. In 2020, an epa report cited a long list of problems with the water system, including a failure to replace lead pipe, faulty monitoring equipment, and inadequate staffing. That is some Serious Problems there in mississippi. And it doesnt look a lot better the next couple days. There is a stationary front hanging out over the southeast. Theyre going keep getting hammered there . Another 2 to 5 inches over the next seven day. Wow. Etreme weather there. Were about to get extreme weather here. The heatwave is still on the way. Weve seen some adjustments on the temperatures and exactly when the hottest weather is going to get here. I do want to get you all those details tonight in our microclimate forecast. And first start off with something a little different. You may have noticed it if you were outside today. Especially in the south bay. Were surrounded by mountains on three different sides, down in the santa clara valley. And what were seeing is some of this smoke getting trapped down here in the south bay. So most of the bay areas moderate, but unhealthy for sensitive groups in the south bay, and expect the same air quality forecast tomorrow. Because were basically seeing some of this smoke. Its not extremely harmful, but you may notice it if you do have a very sensitive respiratory system. Asthma, emphysema, anything of that sort. Because the rum creek fire and six rivers fire again is pushing in a little bit of the smoke towards the bay area. Watch out for that tomorrow. Were going get you the particulars on the heatwave in just a bit. Lets move it right into tomorrow mornings forecast. Well start off with that fog again across the bay area. Spotty drizzle also mixing in. A lot of this clears back by 10 30 in the morning for lots of sunshine in tomorrows forecast. Temperatures will be nice and refreshing to begin. And as ive been saying it, enjoy it now. Once the heatwave is here, its going to be hard for our homes to cool down, even with that ac. You know going at the temperature you got it at, 59 here in the south bay. Trivalley at 60. And were coming in with a mix of the 50s right here over the east bay, San Francisco and the north bay. Temperatures begin to warm up a couple of degrees tomorrow. The heatwave just isnt here quite yet. So 83 in san jose. 90 in morgan hill. These temperatures are going to feel really cool compared to whats on the way. 95 in antioch. 93 pleasanton. Oakland 74. Peninsula, 66. Daly city. Redwood city 79. San francisco 68 in downtown and north bay. 86 in santa rosa. My forecast in mill valley, 78. Let me show you whats going to be happening as we head through tomorrows forecast. The area of High Pressure is going start to develop just to the south of us. Now whats going happen with this, its a very important move with this area of High Pressure. It will push out into the pacific. The hot air is going to expand, push the storm track away to the north. Thats when we get in on the dangerous heat as you roll into saturdays forecast. As it goes now, we have the excessive heat watch throughout the entire bay area. Coastal areas will be 70s to 80s starting saturday into monday. Inland temperatures 100 to 110. So i really want to stress remember to hydrate. Also, those pets and hot car danger before you shut the door. Check it twice to make sure anyone, anything important is not left in that car. Because if we have 110 degree temperatures, the number inside the car can be approaching 150 and or plus. In San Francisco, 80s as we roll through the next several days and through the inland valleys week, up to 102 saturday. 107 on monday. So thats a little change there. It looks like the hottest day will be on labor day for monday. That is a hot way to start september. It is. Coming in strong. We are ready for it, though. Thank you so much, jeff. Thank you, jeff. Well, here is a new way you can watch us. All you need is roku. To find us select the live tv tile on your home screen and scroll down to channel 133. And now you can see our newscast any time and anywhere in the country via roku. Up next, Meghan Markle speaking out aut the royal bo hi, im eileen. I live in vancouver, washington and i write mystery novels. Dogs have been such an important part of my life. I have flinn and a new puppy. As i was writing, i found that i just wasnt as sharp and i new i needed to do something so i started taking prevagen. I realized that i was much more clear and i was remembering the details that i was supposed to. Prevagen keeps my brain working right. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. Well, this didnt louisiana long, only two years. Facebook is shutting down its game streaming app. Facebook gaming, thats what its called, launched at the beginning of the pandemic. The app lets you watch and play video games on demand. But since it launched, it struggled to compete with amazons wildly popular twitch app. Facebook game willing no longer be available on ios and android on october 28th. However, you can use it through main facebook app. Meghan markle is speaking out about her relationship with britains royal family. Youll remember the duchess of sussex and her husband prince harry stepped away from royal duties in 2020. The couple said unbearable intrusion and racist attitudes led to their decision to leave. Yesterday the cut magazine published an interview. During that interview markle said just by existing, she and her husband prince harry upset the dynamic of the hierarchy and said it isnt easy to forgive the royal family. Today we got answers. Have the 49ers and jimmy g decide to Stay Together . Were going hear from coach with xfinity internet, you get advanced security that helps protect you at home and on the go. You feel so safe, its as if. 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Back in the day we had joe montana and steve young. This time around, though, its jimmy g and trey lance. Here is nbc bay areas anthony flores. Its cutdown day in the nfl. Teams trimmed their rosters from 80 to 53 players. But shock was the player the 49ers didnt release. Yesterday the team and Jimmy Garoppolo reworked a new deal to keep jimmy g in San Francisco. With practice canceled today, it was quiet outside of 49ers Team Headquarters in santa clara. But you can imagine the buzz inside the building after the 49ers resigned jimmy g. To a restructured oneyear deal to backup starter trey lance. This wasnt anything like hey, our team has to get this or we have to do this for trey. This was oh my god, Jimmy Garoppolos available as a backup quarterback for us. I just feel it makes us a much better team. Under the new deal, garoppolo will make 6. 5 million this season. Making him among the highest paid backups in nfl history. With bonuses and incentives, that number could climb close to 16 million. The zeal a huge pay cut for jimmy g, but with a no trade clause, it potentially sets up number 10 with a big payday next season, and gives the 49ers some insurance in case lance is not ready for the big stage. Having jimmy as a backup makes us feel very good because we have a starting quarterback as backup. Shanahan calling it shocking that jimmy g. Is back with the team. Yeah, ill miss you guys. You might remember garoppolo said farewell to the bay area back in february. But offseason shoulder surgery made it all but impossible for the niners to trade him. The rest of the league had a chance to get him. Im so fortunate he is here in that case. Reporter jimmy g. Is expected to be back in uniform for the first time this season when the team returns to the practice field on thursday. In sclarks anthony flores, nbc bay area. Well, at least everyone is honest about it. Its surprising that he is still on this team. It is. But the circumstances, right . It was hard to trade him. It was. Jess is very happy. Im so fortunate he is here. Im going with kyle. Youre his number one fan. Aim for sure. Take it away. Coming up at 6 00, a washed up dead whale with a story to tell. The reason this humpback was so beloved to the bay area. And one mans story why the animal was especially important to him. I was kind of blown away when i found out how it happened. Also, friends gathering at the site of a tragic stabbing