Sergio quintana is at San Franciscos hall of justice. Hi, guys. It was more than 18 months ago when david depape allegedly broke into the Pacific Heights home of former House Speaker nancy pelosi and attacked her husband, paul, with a hammer. And today, state prosecutors and the defense began narrowing a jury pool of 120 people down to 12 jurors and six alternates. That jury will consider the eight state felony charges against a pap, among them the attempted murder of paul pelosi and two newly added charges kidnaping and threatening a witness in court. Several potential jurors raised their hands when asked by the judge if theyve ever seen someone do something because of a mental illness, and a few potential jurors also raised their hands to explain theyve seen some of the video related to this case and know about depapes federal conviction. This afternoon, the papps public defender started to whittle the pool down by dismissing a couple of those jurors. Also in court today for a brief
Ranger is overhead right now. This is at sims metal 12 acre recycling center on seaport boulevard. That fire broke out about 90 minutes ago. I want to go ahead and show you now a live look at crews battling the fire. So as you can see here, they are making some progress. But a considerable amount of smoke is still coming out from that area. Air quality officials are urging people to stay indoors with your windows closed, to avoid any exposure to all that smoke. We do have crews headed to redwood city right now. Our assignment desk is also making phone calls to firefighters. As soon as we get more information. We, of course, will bring it to you on air and on all of our digital platforms. Also, at 430. A stabbing on campus. Its been a chaotic day at a high school in gilroy. Good afternoon. Im Audrey Asistio welcome to nbc bay area news at 4 30. Weve been very busy this afternoon talking to police, School Leaders and students about what exactly went down at Christopher High School. Were
November whether armstrong should join the city council. Ktvu tom vacar joins us live from the newsroom with this mornings filing. And why armstrong says hes running. Tom. Well the former highly Popular Police chief, leronne armstrong, filed papers wednesday morning to run for councilman at large, currently a seat held by rebecca kaplan, who has not yet decided whether she will seek the office. Former Oakland Police chief laurent armstrong walked into the City Clerks Office and filed papers wednesday morning to run for the councilman at large seat currently held by rebecca kaplan, who has not yet decided to seek the seat. Armstrong was fired as chief of police 15 months ago by mayor shengtao, who cited an outside investigation that concluded armstrong had mishandled two Police Misconduct cases, but he was later cleared of those allegations by an arbitrator. He is now suing the city of oakland , accusing the mayor of wrongful termination and seeking an office with power over her. I am c
Against the backdrop of the war in gaza, the bodies of iranian president Ebrahim Raisi and irans foreign minister were recovered following an hours long search. A helicopter carrying those two key leaders, along with six others, crashed in a mountainous area near irans northern border. Welcome everyone to the for this afternoon. Im alex savage and im heather holmes. Experts saying this deadly crash could not have come at a worse time with increased tensions there in the middle east. We want to bring in now our jana katsuyama, whos been monitoring the situation and also has some bay area reaction. Yes, and i spoke to some local expats who had frankly been supportive of the opposition. And they say that they are relieved that there will be a new election. Irans ayatollah, the Supreme Leader, named the Vice President as interim president today. I spoke with several bay area scholars who say this is a big blow to the regime losing two of its top leaders, president raisi and the hardline fo
Berkeley building on channing way was clear friday after University Workers cleared the lawn of the tents, signs and barriers that had been erected by protesters earlier in the week. Overnight, uc berkeley police, along with officers from 20 different Law Enforcement agencies from foster city up to fairfield, were called in to remove the encampment. 12 protesters were arrested as police and riot gear erected barricades surrounding the protest site to keep other protesters from entering the area. A uc berkeley Spokesman Says police removed protesters from the building that had been vacant for several years. What happened at anahid was from the very beginning, a criminal act. They broke into a building, they vandalized the building, they trespassed on University Property on friday. The University Says only one person was confirmed to be a uc berkeley student. Four were berkeley residents. Two were from the greater bay area, one is from colorado, and four others have refused to say their