Asistio. Welcome to nbc bay area news at 4 30. Our ian cull is looking into how exactly your pg and e bill will look different. Hes going to be joining us in just a little bit. Were also tracking other stories on this thursday, including the bidens coming to the bay area in separate visits. We are tracking the first ladys landing at sfo. That could happen any minute from now. And when President Biden will touch down in Silicon Valley, also, 25,000 pills of fentanyl found under a crib. The san jose parents, now under arrest and whos now caring for their one year old baby and her Home Insurance bill, doubled in an instant. Its an ongoing problem across california right now. Weve talked about this. Our Damian Trujillo talks to the frustrated homeowner and an economist about the state of our insurance bills. But lets go ahead and start with that decision to change the way we pay our electric bill. This is going to impact all of us, probably vote by state regulators today. Could bring those
This along with these Television Companies support c span2 as a public service. At the end of his extraordinary conversation, Salman Rushdie challenged us to defend the First Amendment principle we must protect the thought we hate as Justice Owens called it and in americas speech can only be banned if it is intended to and likely to cause imminent violence and thats the principle that comes from the brandenburg case articulated by brandeis and whitney. It makes america the most speech protected country in the whole world. And on the first panel we will explore the history of that idea with three of americas greatest historians of freedom of speech. I am so excited for the conversation. We have the future of free speech project and we have steve solomon from nyu and i want to jump right in and first say that your book, free speech, history from socrates to social media, i think is the clearest and best history of the evolution of the idea that i have read. I want to begin by asking you
Accused recall organizers of illegally securing an election through fraudulent signature gathering and questionable finances. Price says the state is now investigating recall organizers say everything was legal. I am concerned for our community that people would be able to come in with money and overturn an election that people would be able to come in and bring people in who would lie and mislead the public. There are no illegal things done by safe. We followed every rule that was set before us right here. Everything we did that we did was by direction. Da price is calling for the board to reject the certification of signatures altogether, and is accusing the voter of registrar of not following the charter rules for a recall. The registrar has not followed the law, consistently. Hes picked and hes cherry picked. What provisions should apply and what provisions should not . And that is not a democratic process. The registrar of voters estimates a special election would cost 15 to 20 mi
Things get weird. Yeah. Its already may 30th. May and its going to feel warmer this afternoon. A lot less wind than yesterday. Heres a live look outside from the exploratorium camera this morning. We have totally clear skies once again. It is going to be another day where we are filled with sunshine. The big headline today we have slower winds. Yesterday along the coast we had those winds gusting 30 to 40mph, so well have less wind along the coast and we will have a warmer afternoon on the way here today. Temperatures right now were in the upper 40s to the lower 50s. We have that cool start out there right now, and then well have that warm finish to the afternoon. So heres a look at your day planner. Today. We have nothing but sunshine once again a Light Coastal breeze. Your sun is up here at 613 this morning. Now your sun is setting after 8 p. M. Well go into the 60s and 70s away from the coast by noon. And then later on this afternoon, our warmest spots getting close to about 80 degr
Here, when any of this was going down, when the account was going down, and probably wont be here for the foreseeable future, a couple of the students werent even involved in planning any of this or they werent even here. Also, the University Said it handed out warnings signed by the president and provost thursday night when the encampment first started tuesday, copies of that warning could be seen on posters around the encampment placed there by university officials. It says students could face suspension and some students are receiving personalized emails. Encampment organizers say the university is targeting certain people. A variation of muslim brown or black, or some mixture of any of those things. Only white students that have been given this disciplinary letter were antizionist jewish students at stanford spokesperson said that the university cannot comment on any individual student cases, but in general, students are being referred to the office of Community Standards for viola