Breaking news out of San Francisco. An intense firefight in the in a densely packed neighborhood. This fire, chaotic. It spread the three buildings. A threestory complex, a Hardware Store and a shed in the back of the store. Were talking 100 firefighters attacking the blaze. Difficult construction issues which makes putting it down a challenge. 12 units in the Apartment Building damaged are gone. Lets show you where its at. I think near eighth and irving near golden gate park. A number of streets are blocked off. People are being told to avoid the area. Firefighters are still on the season. Within the last 30 minutes, the crews got the fire under control. They say luckily if there is some good news, no one was injured. Of course, well continue to monitor the situation and well bring you updates on this fire throughout the newscast. Chilling allegations against a new york doctor with ties to the bay area. Hes accused of drugging and assaulting 13 women and videotaping the crimes. That doctor started his medical career right here in the bay area where investigators are searching for at least one victim. Nbc bay area joins us now. The doctor has several ties to the bay area. He completed his residency at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. Sutter house has him listed as a resident that graduated from their program in 2020. According to investigators, at least one of these sexual assaults took place in the bay area. 13 women allegedly drugged, violated and videotaped. Those are the latest allegations against a new york doctor with ties to the bay area. Translator from one day to another, it felt bad knowing this happened to me. Reporter she was a patient of the doctor and filed a lawsuit two months ago against new york presbyterian queens hospital, alleging he drugged and sexually abused her inside an exam room. Now shes learning her alleged assault was videotaped along with several other patients and acquaintances. I said this could have been a much younger girl than me and that feels bad. Reporter the video discovery came after an acquaintance or a girlfriend found Video Evidence showing her trauma. They also found narcotics, drugs used to sedate patients in Health Care Settings and videos of at least 13 women being raped or sexually abused. Six of the women seen in the videos have yet to be identified, and at least one o bay area. We know the videos were taken not only one of them in the hospital as well, but also in las vegas, in San Francisco, in thailand, and so its important that people reach out to us so we can make the identifications. Reporter we reached out to San Franciscos District Attorneys Office who said as a matter of policy, we do not comment on the existence or nonexistence of possible criminal investigations. We have yet to hear from the lifornic medic center aboutny complaintsy may have received during his residency there. Weve learned chang was santa clara Medical Center the hospital said he never participated in sedating patients at their facilities. Thank you. New at 11 00, more deadly violence in oakland has prompted calls for the immediate appointment of a Permanent Police chief, and the immediate return home of mayor thao who has been on a trade mission. Today a teenager was killed near a b. A. R. T. Station. Reporter it happened right next to the lake merritt b. A. R. T. Station. A teenager gunned down in broad daylight a couple hundred feet from the b. A. R. T. Police headquarters and right in front of a b. A. R. T. Security camera. A suspect in custody toni ill spoke w an oakland man who upn hisbicy i was minutes away from being involved in, you know, being a witness to this. Very, very challenging to see this happening within our community. Reporter about the same time, a man was found shot to death at the martin loser king jr. Boat launch on doolittle. No further information available. Other types of Violent Crime are on the rise as we see in this comparison of crime rates since 2005. Assaults showing the top line have more than doubled during the first half of this year compared to the same months in 2019. Carjackings nearly tripled in the first months of this year compared to the same period in 2019. And murders. Oakland has experienced an increase of 13 this year compared to that same period in 2019. The president of the Oakland PoliceOfficers Association is now demanding the mayor take action. Lets get a Permanent Police chief. Its seven months since the position was vacated. What are we doing . Crime is spiraling here. There is significant challenges for both the Police Officers and the citizens alike. And theres still no police chief. Reporter a woman at todays Fatal Shooting is becoming concerned shes becoming accustomed to the violence. Oh, yeah, another day in oakland. Reporter the man who the mayor defeated for mayor, loren taylor, thinks the mayor needs to come home immediately from vietnam. We have to focus on whats here at home and the crisis now is Public Safety and giving residents the confidence that were on top of it and were going to solve this issue. Reporter the mayors trip to vietnam is in large part to bring more business to the port of oakland. A comment on this story was not returned. Thank you. New at 11 00, antioch city leaders could still consider an unusual plan to solve their Police Staffing shortage. Tell city council is still in session. Its the last item on the agenda is to place officers on administrative leave. Dozens of officers in the text messaging scandal were suspended and one was fired. Now 45 officers are accused of exchanging racist and homophobic texts and the beating of suspects. Last night, the civil rights attorneys requested the department of justice get involved in the investigation that already includes the fbi and the California Attorney general. Okay. Some longawaited answers to a story we first broke last year. Why was a san jose fire truck at a strip club . A judge has ordered the city of san jose to publicly release its report into what exactly happened. That investigation centered on this video which shows, as you see, yes, a bikini clad woman stepping out of a fire truck and then right into the pink poodle strip club. The firefighters initially told investigators they were giving the woman a ride around the block. According to the released report, firefighters claimed the fire captain had recruited a photographer who also worked at the pink pood tol take pictures of his fire crew. They had gone to theb to pick up the photos, although we still dont know why the woman was in the fire truck. The city of san jose sent us a report. They called the incident isolated but highly unacceptable. They also went on to say, the citys ability to conduct a complete and thorough investigation relies on the participation of reporting parties and witnesses to cooperate in the investigative process. We hope the release of the report does not detract from that. In the east bay, a crash near the b. A. R. T. Station. It happened on coggins drive. The police stay driver of that bmw hit a tree and possibly a pole. The man died. The driver. Theyre still investigating how this might have happened. No one else was inside the car. There might be progress in the stalled contract talks between the city of san jose and its unions. This impacts thousands of workers. Heres a live look in san jose. Weve learned both sides are headed back to the bargaining table. The city confirms theyve put a new offer on the table. Its not yet clear what is in the offer but we do know, mediation is set for tomorrow afternoon and thursday morning. If these new talks fail, 4,500 City Employees say theyre ready to walk off the the job for three days, beginning next week on tuesday. The union is asking for an 18 raise over the next three years. The city has offered a 12 raise over the same time period. The workers that include Code Enforcement inspectors, librarians and planners want better parental leave and benefits. A beautiful sight in San Franciscos chinatown tonight. Its iconic lanterns are once again glowing. They held a Lighting Ceremony a few hours ago at california and grant with the dancers and dragons. The lanterns were badly damaged during last winters storms. Over the last few months, the association has been collecting donations to pay for the new lights. The Business Owners say they help bring in tourists who like to take pictures of the decorated streets. Great to have them back. Were back in 60 seconds. Up next, it happened. Someone just won more than 1. 5 billion. Tonight, what weve just learned about the Mega Millions lottery winner. If you havent seen one already, it may just be a matter of time before you spot a driverless car in your rear view mirror. Serious safety concerns have some wanting to hit the brakes on the technology. Well tell you what is driving the controversy and well show you what we found when we take you along for a ride. Im chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. The fog is back. Ill show you how all right. If you havent spotted one already, its only a matte of time. Driverless cars are he woyou get i one . Many peot to hit the brakess techgy. Investigativeepor explains whatrivi the controversy and what happen to him on a test run. Reporter no hands on the wheel. No hands at all. For decades, selfdriving cars were only thought to be futuristic fiction. Today, during a normal part of traffic, shuttling passengers. We ordered a car using an app from cruise. One of 41 Company Currently operating more than 2,000 selfdriving cars in california. Most have a test driver inside who can take over when needed. Hundred of cars on the road right now have no one behind the wheel. Right here. Lets go. Reporter cruise, filmed by gm, is one of the largest Driverless Car Company in america, along with its competitor, googles waymo. Both are asking california regulators for permission to expand their Robo Taxi Services so passengers can request rides 24 hours a day right from their phones. Once you enter your destination, the car does the rest. You cant tell it what routes to take or streets to avoid. If youre used to being a back seat driver, you might want to find a car with a front seat driver. Autonomous vehicles can detect closed streets, drive around double pargd cars and even pull over for emergency vehicles. But getting chauffeured by a robot isnt always a smooth ride. Transportation records we obtained show selfdriving cars have involved in 280 crashes over the past five years in california. Resulting in at least 64 injuries and a dead dog. That includes collisions with other vehicles, bicyclists, and city buses. Some accidents were caused by other people on the road, according to crash reports. How many is unclear from the data. Nationally, selfdriving cars have been confused by emergency scenes. Were sorry. This car wont let us move. Reporter when a Law Enforcement officer t redirecting traffic were not driving reporter the passengers understood but not the actual car. They also plowed into caution tape. Waymo didnt comment but cruise did. They dont drive drunk. They dont get distracted. Reporter shes one. Leaders at cruise. Our vehicles are designed, when they approach a situation theyre not sure about, to come to a safe stop. Even coming to a full stop can create safety issues, too. Traffic blockages are not something we want to happen but it is one of the realities living on a very dynamic street with bicycle. Is, delivery trucks, double parked vehicles. So we are working to minimize when those things happen. Reporter while she admits the technology isnt perfect, she said the only analysis found the Safety Record of selfdriving cars often outperforms human drivers. More than 42,000 trafficrelated deaths in the u. S. Were caused by actual people behind the wheel last year. Selfdriving cars are only believed to have been involved in one fatal crash five years ago. Its hard to compare since there are hundreds of millions more cars with people at the wheel. Cruise tells us its vehicles have driven more than 3 million miles and havent been involved in a single death or lifethreatening injury. After our first ride with cruise its very confused. Reporter we invited her to join us for the second ride. About one minute in, our car was at a green light but wouldnt budge. It is a very safe situation for the car to turn and its just staying here. Im not sure why. Reporter it seems hesitant to you. Very hesitant. Were now between two lanes. The hazard lights were on. Now theyre off. Reporter then all of a sudden it hit the gas. Okay. I dont know what its doing now. Reporter our car drove straight toward the median and just stopped. Taking up almost two full lanes. This is not good. Reporter people are honking at us. Not evening coaching from our driving instructor could get our car moving again. Turn your wheel right. Reporter then came the looks from other drivers. Reporter how does this compare to the worst driving student youve ever had . This is much worse. Reporter much worse in. Oh, yeah. I can communicate with my students and i keep them calm and i cue them. There is no comparison. Reporter cruise declined to sit down with us but said the car encountered an unexpected Construction Zone that would have required several lane changes. The better course was for the Autonomous Vehicle to come to a safe stop rather than proceed. Other drivers cruised right past the closed lane, our car sat parked on a busy street for 20 minutes, causing a traffic jam. Reac . Porter what is your im not sused. I t they still need a driver. Reporter those vehicles stiln testing with actually humans inside to take over, weve learned drivers in california had to override their cars more than 8,000 times last year alone according to records we obtained from the dmv. What does that tell you . If humans have to override because of a safety issue, theyre not good to go. Reporter chief nicholson heads the San FranciscoFire Department and said her crews have had to smash the window of a driverless car to stop it from getting in the way of first responders. Do you feel the urgency to figure this out . There is so little regulation. It almost appears like, we dont have to figure it out. Selfdriving cars are already being tested. California has some of the toughest regulations in the country, some still want the state to hit the brakes on expanding the technology. Protestors launched a social Media Campaign encouraging people to place orange cones on the hoods of driverless vehicles, in homes of confusing the car so they stop moving. Back inside our car, Cruise Customer Service contacted us to say they detected a problem and sent an employee to manually drive to us our destination. So what do you think about your first ride in a selfdriving car . Im rooting for this. I want this to happen. What i saw right now, its a big no for me. Reporter tweaking the technology to handle every type of road clock could take years. It may still be a long road ahead. With the investigative unit. Okay. That was an eye opener. If you have a story for our investigative unit, you can call 888996tips. You can visit the website nbcbayarea. Com investigations. Just sitting there in that car for 20 minutes that would have been very upsetting. And they advised them to stay in the car. That is a really heavily trafficked area. And you have to wonder when the weather changes, how will that impact. A lot of things well have to decide on our own. Today we had some cooler weather and that will continue for tomorrow. Another system offshore. Some cooler air. It will keep the hottest air away. As we head into wednesday, it is back for tomorrow morning. That spotty drizzle and i do see, theyre still trying to hang on. Especially at the bay and right there in San Francisco with some spotty drizzle. By the afternoon, a deeblt , a decent amount of sunshine. A goodlooking day once we get to tomorrow. Well start off in the cool side yet again. Down to 59 in the peninsula. San francisco, at 58. And for the east bay, 59 as well. Daytime highs for tomorrow, staying right in the average to a little bit below. With that sunshine tomorrow afternoon, i think some of the best weather is down here in the south bay with 83 in san jose. 72 in vallejo. 73, san mateo. San francisco, 65. Lets go to the north bay. 80 here in sonoma. Another thing were tracking is the moisture to the south and east. Our chances remain minimal but we are going to have the rain on thursday right through the weekend. Some warmer 70s monday and tuesday. And again, the monday soonal moisture to the south and east of us will bring us 70 to 30 chance of spotty rain. Is not too bad for august. Up next, if you have an iphone, you probably press this button fairly someone is a billionaire out there tonight. That person lives in florida. Weve got to find them them got all five numbers, plus the mega number good for the jackpot of 1. 5 billion. A Ticket Holder in the bay area a lot richer someone got five numbers correct. Theyre going to take home 3. 3 million. Not bad for second place. 13, 19, 20, 32, 33, mega number is 14. I totally would have pick those numbers. We just need to see the numbers. The next drawing is friday at 8 00. All right. Whats next for cal and stanford . Both are actively looking for a new home after five pac12 schools announced theyre ditching the conference. This morning. The uc board of regents had a closed door meeting. Joining the acc or the big ten. After next season, cal and stanford will be just two of four teams remaining in the pac12. They have to act quickly. If they dont, they run the risk of losing their status of being a Major CollegeFootball Team and being in a power league and having a chance at winning a national championship. This is big money. Reportedly acc president s are discussing picking up cal and stanford. Its worth noting in case you forgot your geography, some of the schools in the acc, duke, north carolina, and virginia. So those would be long road trips for cal and stanford. You cant be the pac 4. You cant. All right. Are you ready . Road trip to las vegas. Its strictly business. 49ers heading to las vegas tomorrow for joint practices with the raiders. Yeah. Theyll be on thursday and friday. Then on sunday, a preseason game against the raiders. Dont expect any of the big name players to actually play for both teams. Baseball tonight. The giants out in anaheim. Thats the big a against the angels. Well pick it up in the first inning. The angels got out to a big lead. Shohei ohtani with the big rbi single up the middle. The angels actually built up a 63 lead in the eighth inning. But the giants making a comeback here. Hello to shohei. Maybe well see him in the bay area next season. Wilmer flores. The angels win 75. At the coliseum, its bark in the park. You can bring your dog to the ballpark. The as and first place rangers, seventh inning. Corey seager, the former dodger, a big swing here. Thats the home run toward the state farm sign. The rangers win all right. This might be unsettling. There is a big change coming to your iphone. The biggest revamp on apples new ios 17. They are moving the hangup button. I love the hangup button. The end call button will be at the lower right hand corner instead of the Center Bottom third of the screen. Why . I dont know. Youll have to retrain yourself. It will add changes. Really, the most important thing is theyre moving the hangup thing. I use that all the time with my kids when they annoy me. Now i have to figure out where the hangup button is. When i call you, youre always quick to hang up thanks for joining us. Tonight, the deadly storms, flash floods, and tornadoes leaving a path of destruction in the northeast. A confirmed tornado damaging homes today in massachusetts. Major flooding on the roads near boston vehicles stranded. In maryland, video of power lines toppling onto cars, trapping dozens of people for hours. At least two deaths at least two deaths blamed on the storms south carolina, and a a teen hit by a falling tree in south carolina, and a man struck by lightning in alabama. Our team in the storm zone also tonight, the massive strike in los angeles. City workers walking off the job. What theyre demanding, and the major impacts on city services. New video of that violent brawl on an alabama riverfront what it reveals, and the charges police announced today. The new york city beach shut down after a rare shark attack her condition a 65yearold woman critically injured. Her condition tonight. The popular weight loss drug wegovy, could it have additional benefits for your heart . What a new study has found. Our nbc news investigation into selfdriving cars how many are involved in crashes . What happens when we took a ride