the family s home on march 14th, an attempt to kidnap brandon posing as a child protective services worker. he eventually left after the family became suspicious and called cps themselves. the investigation found that text messages between the 2 suspects show. they tried to kidnap the baby from a local wal-mart twice the first time at the end of march. and again, the morning they were successful in taking brandon from his home. it s absolutely shocking. this is i think any parent s worst nightmare. defense attorney for ramirez, cody south and maintained his client s innocence thursday saying she s terrified about the charges against are these allegations are absolutely a first for her and she wants very much to get back to her life south and says he hasn t seen the text messages that brought about the attempted kidnapping charges and question their validity. we don t know who is behind those phones. and we also have and the added layer of of the translation from spanish lan
risks for reopening. andria borba is live in south san francisco with how the county is making sure things don t get out of control. reporter: typically on st. patrick s day, your only concern is alcohol poisoning and driving under the influence. this year there is the added concern that covid-19 does not once again begin to spread here in san mateo county. this is our most important day of the year. we are an irish pub. reporter: bars were given the green light to open at midnight as the county moved into the orange tier, just in time for st. patrick s day. for the co-owner of o neill s irish pub in san mateo, there will be irish car bombs and green beer, along with sanitation and social distancing protocols. i will have a guard of both doors, and we need to keep it to 50% capacity. reporter: and with bars reopening for the first time since last year, sheriff s deputies are also on the lookout. with the bars opening today, we have an increase in patrols and we
love sounds varsity team playing its first game of this shortened season players coaches and parents tell us they weren t sure if they were going to get to this point, this school year, but they are happy they have. high school kids putting on the had been hitting the gridiron as they re ready to play the game. they love once again. know it s finally here and we re all excited. and you know, it is all, you know, fired up and we can t wait to, you know, just get started and they ll sell high school begins at 6 game season with new covid-19 protocols. the bleachers are limited to just immediate family while social distancing and mask-wearing rules have to be followed. parents tell us it s just great seeing their kids back on the field and amazing thing or so, so lucky and so blessed that we get to have this opportunity. how these kids feel. you know, to put back on and just to be able to get some contact and get that from rod. are you going and that sort of thing. so yeah
accused them of amplifying hate and misinformation for profit. facebook has realized that if they change the algorithm to be safer, people will spend less time on the site. they ll click on less ads, they ll make less money. the cost of the outage is huge. according to net blocks, it cost aa loss of $161 million per hour to the global economy. and we re now learning more about what caused that outage. cisco s internet analysis shows that it was due to a domain name system failure. now that system is often referred to as the phone book of the internet. reporting live at facebook headquarters, marianne favro, nbc bay area news. thank you. facebook stock took a huge hit on wall street today. it dropped nearly 5% today. at one point the company lost $50 billion in its market value. facebook is valued just under $1 trillion. all this leading up to tomorrow s senate hearing on instagram s impact on children. this is video from last week s session on the same topic. tomorrow
The deal is final ahead of tomorrows deadline to close but of course, there is a tweet elon musk writing just about an hour ago. The bird is freed. We get the developing story from ktvu Jana Katsuyama live outside twitter headquarters in San Francisco, jenna. Mike i spoke with some twitter employees off camera and they tell me that they were given no advance notice internally before news about this transition broke tonight. Just before nine p. M. In San Francisco elon musk posted on twitter. The bird is freed. It came just minutes before the midnight deadline in delaware to close the twitter deal. Musk started the day thursday with a message on twitter to advertisers, saying the reason he required twitter is to have quote a common digital town square where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner. He said. There is currently great danger that social media will splinter into far right wing and far left wing echo chambers that generate more heat and dividers society. Bu