Preliminary hearing. It was the second day of her hearing and at the end of which, a judge would decide if there is enough evidence for her to stand trial. As the court was ending for the day, ramirezs attorney announced that she wanted to change her plead to know contest. A clear sign that they had reached a deal with the judge. Ramirez could face up to 12 years in prison. Up to five years in the prosecutor did not like that. Given the severity of what occurred in this case that a threemonthold baby was kidnapped and taken from his home and that as was shown in court over the last two days, there were multiple attempts to kidnap this child. Given all of the circumstances, it was the perfect storm for them to accept the offer. It was a reasonable offer from the judge. He fell in love and follow the wrong woman and found himself in this position. He has no records. He was working. We spoke with baby brandons mother after she testified today and the agreement had not been announced. Jessica told us that she is not angry anymore and that she forgiven ramirez and cordio and is only concerned that she can get out of jail and do something worse. But again, in this case, both have pled no contest in an agreement with the judge, not with prosecutors. She faces up to 12 years in prison, maybe less. He faces up to five years, maybe less, and she gets more because she was the alleged mastermind in this kidnapping plot that succeeded for about 20 hours before baby brandon was rescued by police. Back to you. Okay, reporting live with that information in san jose. Thank you, damien. As we speak now, House Speaker nancy pelosi is in taiwan meeting with the parliament there and soon is scheduled to meet with the president of taiwan. All of this is sparking tension as China Threatens retaliation. It is also sparking responses from those with close ties to taiwan. Nbcs jones has the bay area reaction. It is a move that hasnt been made in 25 years. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the city of taiwan. The trip creating controversy here at home. For that visit. It is to create a serious risk of work. The u. S. China embassy is calling the visit a serious violation of the one china principle. Arguing the trip will negatively impact china and u. S. Relations. Former San Francisco judge julie tang agrees, protesting against the move this week. Just raised the temperature of the differences between the two countries. And risking more in taiwans streets, which will not be any good for any of the Asian Countries and also does nothing to help out the american people. The trip is making mixed reaction between students in the bay, some concerned about how this will impact taiwans future as a self ruling democracy. Although it is the you is coming out here to show support, i think the consequences will be taiwans burden to take. It is good that they can Exchange Ideas about democracy. Is big Political Science explains that is china fights to prevent taiwan from stating its independence, the president brings more implications. Taiwan is a political pawn in the sense that, you know, it becomes a bargaining chip. As China Threatens to take action, those threats will fall short. China is not yet have the capability to make a fullscale invasion of taiwan at this point. Melina jones, nbc bay area news. San Francisco School board is in special session right now considering a possible reprimand against a recently appointed member. Because of comments that she made on a questionnaire when asked about black and latino students and their parents and learning. Nbc king tana is live with School District headquarters right now. Sergio, that meeting started about 5 00. What is happened so far . Reporter well, it was pretty lively. They did consider the reprimand and then they went to Public Comments and really it kind of went off the rails in just the last five minutes or so. They just made an announcement that they are clearing up the room because just a few minutes ago, there was a shouting match that just broke out. Just before the meeting, a coalition of groups led by the San Francisco and double in acp let a rally calling for her resignation and four her reprimand and resignation. I dont think she is a bad person, and i think she can be an ally, but not sitting on this decision. We need someone who is a little further along than she is. Here is what the commissioner wrote that had stir this controversy. For my very limited exposure in the past four months to the challenges of educating marginally students especially in the black and brown community, i see one of the Biggest Challenges is being the lack of Family Support for those students. Unstable family environments caused by housing and Food Insecurity along with lack of parental encouragement to focus on learning cause children to not be able to focus on or value learning. The commissioner was appointed a few months ago to the board of education to fill one of the positions vacated after three Board Members were recalled in february. She has apologized for the comments and vows to learn from her mistakes. She was appointed to the board of education by mayor brandon lee during the walking tour of the groups today. They say commissioner she was comments were offensive, but she believes her apology and still supports her. I really hope that after this meeting that we can really put this behind us. We have reached out for comments. No response from her just yet, but she was at this meeting and several Chinese Community supporters have rallied to her defense saying that she is being unfairly treated. You can see that right now the end of well, there is a break officially in this meeting. They have just cleared the room where this meeting was happening, so it is not yet clear exactly when the school board is going to return so that they can continue considering this reprimand. Reporting live in San Francisco, i am sergio quintana, nbc bay area news. A lot going on tonight, we will keep you on our 7 00 newscast for some updates. Thank you. A new kind of Covid Vaccine in the bay area. Santa clara county started giving out the nova back shots. Federal regulators just approved this vaccine last month. Unlike the other vaccines, this one uses proteinbased ingredients to develop immunity. It could serve as an alternative for a lot of people who may have an allergic reaction to the other vaccines. The county started offering shots for adults and all of its vaccine sites. Beefing up the response to the monkeypox, President Biden took action today. Comes a day after california declared a Health Emergency here. What the president did isnt quite what a lot of Bay Area Health leaders were hoping for. President joe biden announcing today two federal officials will lead the nations response to monkeypox. Ucsf Infectious Disease specialist dr. Peter chin hong says it is not enough. I am very surprised that the feds issued a national, you know, public Health Emergency declaration yet. The more we wait, the more this is going to get out of control. On the front lines in San Francisco, people continue to wait for hours for a vaccine as the outbreak spreads. California 786 monkeypox cases, 310 are in San Francisco. That is nearly 40 of all the states cases. On monday, the governor declared a Health Emergency workout california. I think it will help a lot because San Francisco can use money that is allocated to the state for discretionary emergencies. Reporter governor nuisances the declaration will also help establish statewide monkeypox testing and step on efforts to obtain more vaccines. Today the state alerted San Francisco it will receive more than 10,000 additional doses of the monkeypox vaccine. That is double what the city has received so far. No word yet on when theyll arrive. In Santa Clara County, there are now 55 confirmed cases of monkeypox. County Health Leaders say the vaccine shortage is the greatest barrier to controlling the current outbreak. Responding to the governors Emergency Declaration saying county of Santa Clara CountyHealth Department welcomes any action by the state that could increase supply and distribution of monkeypox vaccination from the federal government to local jurisdictions. In san jose, marianne favro, nbc bay area news. A legal shakeup tonight in a case involving the deadly beating of a south bay inmate. You might remember this case. The jury found three former santa clara Sheriff Deputies guilty. They were awaiting transfer to a Residential Treatment Center for mental illness. We learn today that an Appeals Court has reversed the convictions. It was based on a legal theory that is no longer california law. They can find all three deputies guilty without deciding which one actually killed retiree. So if the d. A. Did retry the case, they would have to retry them separately. Weve afforded extensively on this case. You can see all of our previous reports including a timeline of the deputies trial on nbc bay area. Com. Take a look, we have a video of an Armed Robbery in vallejo today. Is what we know so far having just before 2 00 pm outside of the safely on admiral callahan way. At least unless the employee of a cash handling company was robbed at gunpoint. Loomis truck. Thankfully no one was hurt. Authorities dont have any information about the suspect at this time. Stomach next, we are starting to see signs of inflation easing. The encouraging and not so encouraging ways to know if youll be paying less for a lot of the things you now by. I am chief meteorologist, and certainly relevant with our thunderstorms in california. Ill take a look at our clinic coverage and the increasing number of days we are seeing of thunderstorms throughout the United States coming up in about eight minutes. They discover that it is causing in beijing and washington, and Virtual Realities fall in the world to wanna help kids get their homework done . Well, an Internet Connections a good start. But kids also need computers. And sometimes the hardest thing about homework is finding a place to do it. So why not Hook Community centers up with wifi . For kids like us, and all the Amazing Things were gonna learn. Through project up, comcast is committing 1 billion dollars so millions more students can continue to get the tools they need to build a future of unlimited possibilities. It is definitely cheaper to fill up your car these days. Not by much, but still. But not to grocery cart. That is for sure. Inflation is still with us and not going anywhere anytime soon. Are starting to eat into job openings. Here is our businesses. We will start with good news. Gas prices are down. In fact, theyve been falling now for seven consecutive weeks. As for other prices, shoppers tell us they are still pretty high. But while we found evidence of falling prices, evidently seeing it at the pump. We also met shoppers who say they are still paying a premium for groceries. You know, i definitely am not going to whole foods as much. Im going more to safeway. Although i prefer whole foods, because they have better produce. Reporter and that is if they can find what they are looking for. There are some gaps on storage shelves. What ive noticed while shopping his shelter prepare and you know, there is a couple of name brands on their but i love the shelves are pretty sparse. Reporter of the Economy Watchers say we are still struggling with a combination of inflation, pandemic, and uncertainty about what comes next. It is all of these different factors that are new that weve not experienced before and so i think that that is where the unpredicted ability lies. Another effect of the economic slowdown is fewer job openings. Yes, there are still jobs to be had in the bay area, but fewer than even just a few weeks ago. Starting to affect a tech suck there as well. The hiring freeze has some layoffs, and in the case of the metaverse, it turns out a lot of those jobs are virtual as well. Research saying jobs with the word metaverse in the title have dropped by 80 in the last three months. San jose nbc bay area news. Thank you, scott. A new Crisis Call Center in the south bay earlier this month. They 988 suicide in crisis lifeline wants across the country. It helps people in a Mental Health crisis as well as resources for treatment. In Santa Clara County, the new 988 line is run by paid staff of 10 along with 75 volunteers. Those volunteers undergo 80 hours of training in Mental HealthCrisis Response. The Call Center Goes beyond the phone line extended clara county shabbos as it also offers in person support to people in need through a mobile Crisis Response team. The backbone of the system is really the crisis and suicide hotline. These are folks that are really used to responding to these calls and what is great about it though is now we have an integrated system. Instead of having systems all over the place and phone numbers all over the place, they are all going to be able to collaborate in one building. Santa clara is one of two counties in the state to operate its own Crisis Call Center. Back with us now to talk to us about our weather, because it is humid here. A look around the country and we are actually in a great spot here. Yeah, there is been a quite a bit of extreme weather. And flooding in kentucky. There could be more heat on the way next week through other parts of the u. S. We are still dealing with an unusual weather as we have been talking about with thunderstorms and humidity. I definitely feel the tropical outside. As we go over our coverage tonight, i did want to go over thunderstorms in the increasing number of days where we are seeing higher thunderstorm chances. Take a look at this map and you can see across the eastern half of the u. S. This purple color. That is a lot of places anywhere from 10 to 40 more days of higher thunderstorm chances out here across the west and also seeing an increase. Is this light purple color. On average, that is about five days more. What this map is measuring is known as cape, or convective available energy. It is a tool meteorologist use to see where and how high our thunderstorm chances will be. As we talked about warmer air is increasing those thunderstorm chances, as our climate changes. Parts of the north and east bay and also Central Valley is seeing about five, four days on average of those thunderstorms. Why is all of this so important . As we know, it just takes one Lightning Strike to spark a fire. If you remember back in the lm u lightning complex, it went to 363,000, 220 acres, making it the sixth largest in california history. You can get more on our climate stories, just had to nbc bay area. Com and click on the climate section. Of course, this is very relevant with the odd pattern we have right now in our thunderstorm chances. We have a low pressure, High Pressure acting like conveyor belts. This highpressure pulling in a monsoon and upping pulling a Tropical Storm frank. I can show you on the satellite radar picture right now super fascinating to see this. If you are a weather geek like me, you are probably loving seeing some of the dynamic situations we are dealing with. There is Tropical Storm frank counterclockwise circulation. You can see it in their feeding up some moisture as it loops around moving into california and then there is that monsoon moisture producing those thunderstorms over the sierra. We will get you a closer view tracking you back to your offshore. No lightning with it. Could give the northern coastline simmering here around the arena by 6 43 tonight. We will have updates on that if we see in the eye lightning get close. You can also track it on our app at nbc bay area. Com. We will put on a slight chance of thunderstorms tomorrow morning. And makes it 50s and 60s to start. San francisco also some fog coming in at 58. Daytime highs tomorrow i have here in the 90s if youre heading out towards concord in livermore. Up to 88, oakland at 73, 60s at the coast. Sevenday forecast in San Francisco holds to the 60s. Morning fog and afternoon sunshine for the next seven days. Morning temperatures in the 50s and through the inland valleys, a touch of humidity for about thursday morning, and then the air should dry out after that, so i think this weekend it will feel a little bit more like the classic californian saturday and sunday with those 80s. I think for the kids, summer vacation, all of us now a couple of more weeks. Kids are going back to college too. Going back to school. Last ride. Rings, jen. Im mark and i live in vero beach, florida. My wife and i have three children. Ruthann and i like to hike. We eat healthy. We exercise. I noticed i wasnt as sharp as i used to be. My wife introduced me to prevagen and so i said yeah, ill try it out. I noticed that i felt sharper, i felt like i was able to respond to things quicker. And i thought, yeah, it works for me. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. Nongaming tribes have been left in the dust. Wealthy tribes with big casinos make billions, while small tribes struggle in poverty. Prop 27 is a game changer. 27 taxes and regulates Online Sports betting to fund permanent solution to homelessness. While helping every tribe in california. So whos attacking prop 27 . Wealthy casino tribes who want all the money for themselves support small tribes, address homelessness. Vote yes on 27. A police dog helped with a bus. The hayward canine is being held as a hero. They played a Critical Role during a recent traffic stop. The dog helped a special duties unit recover a loaded firearm, body armor, a police badge, and suspected narcotics. The driver was arrested and is facing several charges. Hes cute too. Stomach a workers protesters outside a food Reduction Plan for the used to work. Amys kitchen shutdown in san jose facility last month after just a year of operation. The workers now unemployed say it is no coincidence this happened as they were exploring whether to unionize. The nonprofit food and our product supports them after hearing their stories. And found that the working conditions they were in were disrespectful, not treating them with human dignity. They were not getting bathroom breaks. They would be forced to work at incredibly fast speeds, which is causing Occupational Injuries for the workers. Amys kitchen still operates its main plant in the county. Cause the allegations false, citing charges stemming from inflation as well as a consumer bore cut after the workers at the main kitchen aired complaints about working conditions there. Of next at 6 00, more spraying in parts of the bay area with xfinity internet, you get advanced security that helps protect you at home and on the go. You feel so safe, its as if. I dont know. Evander holyfield has your back. I wouldnt click on that. Hey, thanks we got a muffin for ed all right you dont need those calories. Can we at least split it . Nope. Advanced security that helps protect your devices in and out of the home. I mean, can i have a bite . Only from xfinity. Nah. 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Leaders say the virus poses bigger threats to pets and other animals and a big tip that they tell you is to not leave any standing water just sitting there. Thats what attracts mosquitoes, so you have to be very careful. Stomach tonight at 7 00, we continue to follow Speaker Nancy Pelosis visit to taiwan. She scheduled to meet with Parliament Within the hour and also the president. We are taking a deep look at the strain her visit could put on the u. S. Relationships with china. We will also check in with that Contentious School Board meeting happening right now in San Francisco. Those stories and more coming up on our 7 00 newscast. Stomach im next on nightly news, it is primary day in some states, featuring many candidates endorsed by the former president trump. How are they doing, and what influence does he still have . A look at how those races are shaping up in michigan, arizona, and missouri. Residential made a comment that confused a lot of voters. We are going to have that and more on nightly news. Mr. Holt joins us from los tonight Speaker Nancy Pelosis historic trip to taiwan and the outrage over it from china. Pelosi receiving a big welcome as she becomes the highest ranking u. S. Official to visit taiwan in 25 years the trip defying repeated warnings from the chinese who claim the selfruled island as their own. Tonight the worries inside the white house over the trip and how china is reacting, threatening a show of military might. Also tonight new details on the u. S. Strike that killed alqaeda leader ayman alzawahiri. The new images, the safe house where he was killed, and President Biden in the situation room being briefed with a model of the hideout inside the months long operation. Days after the gop moved to block a bill to help veterans exposed to burn pits, the new deal announced today the desperate search for survivors in the kentucky flood. Hundreds still unaccounted for new images tonight of the harrowing rescues. 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