Murder charges against the doctor. We spoke with the deputy d. A. By phone earlier this morning. She tells us that her office first had doubts about their case against the doctor back in july, which is why they released him then with the understanding they wanted to reexamine certain aspects of the case before this afternoons hearing. This morning she said they reached a decision to drop the charges against the doctor, in quote, the interest of justice, unquote. His friend, galvez, still stands accused of stabbing to death the doctors wife. This happened inside their gilroy home on april 1st. She showed the d. A. Documents that proved galvez is a con man. Those are her words, who was trying to swindle the two out of their condo located in ecuador. When galvez went to close the door on the sale of property, he killed her on his own without being hired to do so by the doctor as the District Attorneys Office first alleged. I represent an innocent client. I mean, hes 100 innocent in my opi
Have more on the way throughout the next couple hours. Showers are clearing, but now we have a chance for thunderstorms, as well. Fremont picked up just about a half inch. Were still getting the tallies to come into our newsroom right now. Alameda just under a half inch. San francisco looking good and pacifica for. 4 an inch. Here in san jose, were almost up to a quarter inch of rain. Heres the deal, a lot of that shower activity is racing off, still getting a little snowfall above 7,000 feet in the Sierra Nevada range, but for us, were watching this steady stream of moisture. The moisture is there. Now were going to get daytime heating. Two are ingredients for thunderstorms. We also have the instability out there. Were going to talk about what that means, the best chance later today, and when we get our next rain event and its looking to pass more moisture. Back to you, scott, kris, and the rest of the top stories of the day. New video out of San Francisco, where a tree crashed down,
Hundreds of buildings fell in the loma prieta earthquake. Now 25 years later, building inspectors are making their way through San Francisco posting warnings on structures that still dont meet safety standards. Good evening, im Juliette Goodrich in for frank mallicoat. Im michelle griego. Right now, the city is sending the message loud and clear, with signs warning Property Owners to get on board. Kpix 5 reporter ryan takeo is in the Marina District with a look at the retrofitshaming signs. Reporter heres a look at the signs, michelle. How would you like to come home and see this in big bold red letters, earthquake warning right there, it says this building is in violation for the city. Were in marina. Thats important because these are the types of buildings that collapsed during loma prieta. Up top are condos and apartments and down below are garages. Now, today the city started putting up 350 of these signs because building owners have not yet finished an important step. They need to
They dont tont know what to believe. Who are the people behind this . Reporter its unclear what the emailers intend to do if they do not get the demand, the apology they demand. Its also unclear when the deadline for that apology is whether it was today at noon or tomorrow at noon. Again, folks who live in this neighborhood are very nervous. We have been unable so far to verify the authenticity of that email. Reporting live in vallejo, im jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. Another day of strange twists. Thanks jodi. Now to breaking news in southern california. Youre looking at it. Firefighters are battling a wildfire that quickly grew to more than 70 acres this afternoon in apple valley. Thats about 50 miles north of san bernardino. The crews are attacking the flames from the air and from the ground. Its threatening seven buildings right now. One has been damaged so far. No word of any injuries. Were keeping an eye on this situation and well update you with any new developments. Here i
Investigation. One love and one love, president obama stops in jamaica. Today, april 9, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savann studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone, welcome to today morning. We probably should start the show this way every day. We will tell you more about the barack oba more bob marley. Is hesevere weather follo overnight of tornadoes, rain, hail, and dyla following all of it. We saw tornadoes, hail, we had flash flooding. Take a look at this video from deerhead, kansas. You can see obviously the funnel cloud. You see that raiow there. Unbelievable video from a more rural area from southern kansas right on the border of oklahoma. So there were no damage reports because it was obviously in rural area. Now in missouri, we saw more hail than anything else. We have reports of hail two to three inches in diameter, winds gusting 60 to 70 miles an hour toppling trees, power lines, tearing the buildings. We also had a lot of r