Accidental and not related to terrorism. So tough to see, knowing we have so many tourist landmarks here that are poplar across the nation. You can see on your screen, not a portions of times square are still closed at this hour as Police Continue to collect estigace and make sure that this is not a diversion in anticipation of something else. Ged Investigative Team with our sister station new york has rightered many more details, and the leading theory from police s oat this was a drunk or drugged driving incident. Rivingiver undergoing tests right now as we speak, and we mentioned his history. We know two dwis on his record including one in which he was driving 99 Miles Per Hour in a of oure per hour zone. Mayor de blasio says it was a tough day for new york city, but is 2sve tremendous faith in the work of our first responders. Thanks for joining us. The times square crash tops our i ional news this midday hour, but we also have local headlines. Good to have you with us. Im sam brock. Back in the bay area now and a string of car fires that unsettled communities all over nbc east bay. Today the man suspected of and bong them faced a judge for the first time. Bishopy areas bob redell was in re. Courtroom and join us us live from martines. This was obviously a short day develrt. Did we learn anything . Reporter we did. Good morning to you, sam. James bishop iii, who is not capable of setting all of the car fires according to his father, appeared behind a metal and glass partition before a judge this morning in superior court in martines, and he answered yes as the judge asked if he understood he was about to give up his right to a speedy arraignment. Bishops public defender advised his client not to enter a plea so he could have more time to review the discovery material in this case. Bishop is scheduled to enter a plea a week from tomorrow at 8 30. His bail has been set at 1. 5 million. Bishop faces several criminal charges surrounding 11 incidents of arson including the seven cars set on fire overnight last week here in martinez, walnut creek, lafayette and brentwood. No one was hurt, no nearby homes burned down and Arson Task Force arrested bishop this past saturday morning in venetia not far from where another car fire was set. The prosecutor in this case explained to us why she agreed to delay his arraignment. The case is fairly complex. There are a number of counts from a number of different dates. The fire service, from my understanding, is still investigating a number of offenses. So the defense needs to have time to review the material. It is only fair that they have sufficient time obviously to review the material before they choose to enter a plea. Reporter nbc bay area spoke with bishops father by phone yesterday. He says his son did have at least one runin with the law in his 20s, but points out that his son has a masters degree, is a published author and worked in it. He said he came to the bay area for a job and, quote, why would he go around blowing up cars . W deveing live here in martinez, bob redell, nbc bay area news. All right. A lwill continue to follow that. Haank you very much, bob. Saysalso new developments just in out of d. C. A lawyer for fired National Security adviser Michael Flynn ts. S flynn will not turn over private documents despite a ppoite Intelligence Committee subpoena for those documents. Nt inrday the Justice Department appointed a special counsel to investigate. Ae have more on that Development Mo a live report coming up in just ten minutes. E seveso new at 11 00, an amtrak train struck and killed a person a s nole just this morning. It happened just before 7 00 near the intersection of 10 and railroad. These are pictures from nbc bay k s sky ranger. It is not clear at this point what that person was doing on the tracks, but an investigation is under way. O newcident did stop Amtrak Service through the area for a while this morning. It is now back to normal. Also new right now, the itman behind the sex scandal vochli rts lving multiple Bay Area Police officers is expected to pestify in court. You may recall she was involved ging istitution as a teenager. She is expected at a preliminary hearing for Police Officer brian bunton. Rostis charged with engaging in earnintution and trading for sex. He is one of former or current Police Officers charged with crimes related to teen prostitution. Andre learn two texas men charged with a hate crime for tembing a sik man in richmond pleaded guilty. Stopon leblanc and chase little have been sentenced to threeyear prison sentences as a ing lt. Last november they attacked this man at a stoplight, pulling off the turban and beating him. He suffered a black eye, head injuries, teeth damage. One of his fingers actually had to be amputated. Ng oe texas men were visiting refine railway workers. Continuing coverage of the norovirus hitting so many l difornia schools very hard including here in the bay area. We are finding out this morning take vhe Sacramento City unified es ool district says 29 of their rus ols are now dealing with that difficult stomach bug. Closer to the bay area, there are nearly 2100 cases of nor owevirus in yolo county. Gonnight we learned that the outbreak spread to sack arament county. Doctors say people should stay home two days after symptoms are gone because theyre still takeding the virus at that point. The outbreak started with 50 case also. 40 Public Schools including uc davis have been hit. Here in the bay area at least 14 schools are dealing with the outbreak, and the number of cases reported since may 4 up to 368. Well, we did not start the week out in summer, but we seem to be intent or finishing the week in summerlike conditions. You will want to get your shorts bld tank tops ready as it will be awfully hot by the time the weekend rolls around. Here are windows one over San Francisco and one from dublin. Is going to be warm in both places. Carey, it is kind of a shock to the system because its been really cold. Yeah, it started out really cold this week. When you think about tuesday when we were all in the 60s, were already now at 70 degrees in the trivalley and peninsula. 69 degrees in the south bay. So we are already above those high temperatures we had a juuple of days ago. 62 degrees now in San Francisco. It is warming in the north bay. We are at 71. And 62 degrees with some clear skies over the east bay. Our high temperatures will be much milder along the coast, reaching 70 degrees in San Francisco. Also for half moon bay. Livermore up to 83 degrees and 86 degrees in concord. As we head towards the end of the weekend we reach the peak of the heat on sunday. Some of the inland areas will be in the 90s, and were talking about 90 in san jose. Concord will be one of the hostest temperatures, will measure up to 95 degrees while San Francisco will stay in the mid 70s. We will take a look at all of the numbers in microclimate forecast and what you can expect as you make weekend plans, erming up in a few minutes. Just hank, kari. Just in, we learned moments ago of the cause of death of chris cornell. The Coroners Office in detroit told the media his death was holermined as hanging by suicide or sigh sued by hanging. Ot tas one of grunge rock signature singers snoech sound garden out of seattle bay shot to familiar in the mid 990s. Cornell was later the front man for audio slave. He was on a solo tour at the time of his death. He was found dead late last night in his Detroit Hotel room after performing before a soldout crowd. Chris cornell was just 52 years old. Also, still developing at this hour, chris, absolutely stunning news from this morning. Ongtime political consultant fromthe man who really bit fox news into a cable tv power house, roger ailes has died. s ch was 77 years old. He was force willed to resign. N fox news last summer after accusations of sexual harassment. Nbcs Chris Pallone has more. Reporter we learned this morning our former ceo roger ailes pass away this morning. We just want to remember him. He is dead at the age of 77 years old. Reporter the news breaking this morning on the channel he personally created but where he no longer worked after being forced to resign in 2016. Roger ailes, once called the loudest voice in the room, has died. Ailes was a longtime political consultant and television producer. In the 60s he helped Richard Nixon master the emerging media of television. Rupe erlt murdock asked ailes to create a cable channel in 1976. He launched fox news. A makeorbreak king maker for conservative candidates in the u. S. No one changed politics more with a single medium than ailes. He took television to the political space. Reporter his wife called him a patriot, profoundly grateful to live in a country that gave him so much opportunity to work hard, to rise and to give back. But after 20 years of success in ratings dominance at fox nuss, ailes was forced to resign. More than two dozen fox news employees accused him of sexual harassment. Ailes denied the accusation. Loor leaving fox news, he fired donald trump prepare for debates with hillary clinton. Fire investigators are now his ing into what caused a Dumpster Fire that within hours bay ated part of a shuttered Auto Parts Store in east san jose. We first brought you this as breaking news during today in the bay at 4 30. The building was at south white and story roads. Ghtersghters are saying the fire is only mildly suspicious. It is the second time in a year ing. Ighters have been called to the same area. Sast june a grass fire damaged some cars and a small section of that same building. San francisco sheriff is now reportedly devising a plan to move some of the citys most theerous inmates to another location. The underlying problem behind ave is that the county jails maximum Security Section in the hall of justice is slated to close down. The examiner is reporting up to 350 inmates are going to have to le housed somewhere else. Sheriff Vickie Hennessey is working with Public Health leaders and others to try to find an acceptable alternative. A stof the ideas being floated is the construction of some kind of replacement facility. Time magazine is making a big statement with their new cover. If you havent seen it, youre intg to want to. He well forms the white house. Also, the investigation into russian hacking and the election is kicking into high gear. Speaking of which, chris, the wellknown washington lawyer heading this investigation. Plus google shows cool new things you can do with your phones camera coming up in business and tech. [ birds chirping ] [ inhales, exhales ] [ announcer ] cigarettes are not just dangerous when theyre smoked. [ rat squeaking ] theyre dangerous long after. Cigarette butts are toxic. They release chemicals that poison our water. And harm wildlife. And millions. Are polluting our environment. [ sniffing ] [ seagulls squawking ] p. Well, check out the cover of Time Magazine thats out today. It is sure to turn heads. You probably saw this maybe in your twitter feed or facebook feed this morning. Of course, showing russias kremlin taking over the white house. The magazines commentary on the russian scandals plaguing trump presidency. Time tweeted out an animation of the cover coming together. The magazines executive editor says it is first time in a decade they released a cover without a title. In this case says they did it because the picture says it all. No doubt it is the topic of conversation everywhere today. Washington right now experiencing kind of a rare moment of bipartisan, at least as far as reactions go. Republicans and democrats both voicing support for the man chosen to head the investigation into russias election tampering and possible ties to the trump campaign. But President Trump is lashing out, as you might imagine. Nbcs Jennifer Johnson has the story from capitol hill. Good morning, jennifer. Reporter well, good morning, sam and chris. Thats right, the president took to twitter this morning and is apparently furious about the appointment of the special counsel, even though he is getting bipartisan support here on capitol hill. An angry President Trump is lashing out on twitter today after the appointment of former fbi director Robert Mueller as special counsel to look into possible collusion between Trumps Campaign and the russians. The president says this is the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in american history, but lawmakers are welcoming mueller who served under both president s bush and obama. The whole point is to have an independent investigation and follow the facts wherever they may lead. It is premature to prejudge anything at this point. Reporter Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein made the decision late yesterday to appoint mueller. If the president has nothing to hide, then he and the republicans in congress should welcome independent investigations to remove all doubt of a coverup. Reporter but today new questions about fired National Security adviser Michael Flynn. The New York Times reports flynn told trumps Transition Team weeks before the inauguration he was already under investigation for secretly working as a paid lobbyist for turkey. But the president hired him anyway. This is the classic scandal in the nature that theres another shoe that drops every day or two. Reporter even with muellers appointment, the house and senate Intelligence Committees will go forward with their own investigations into russias involvement in the election. In about 10 minutes Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein will be testifying before the full senate specifically about the firing of fbi director james comey, but that meeting will be behind closed doors. Live in washington, im Jennifer Johnson. Sam and chris, back to you. Thank you for getting us up to date on all of this, jennifer. I appreciate that. Happening today, it is the loud and lively debate over Airport Noise that might finally get Soothing Solutions today. People on the peninsula are expected to get answers about new plans to limit the noise from san carlos airport. The debate over noise has been going on for years now. For the last year the county has been getting input on possible solutions. That includes a curfew proposal. To nights meeting will start at 6 00, and that will be in redwood city. Well, there is a break coming for the broken main spill way at the orville dam. The Sacramento Bee reports the water will stop flowing from the spill way tomorrow. Officials are hoping that it will be the last time that the spill way will be used until the next rainy season. A giant crater oped en ed up oe ram earlier this year. You remember there were a lot of evacuations that follow. Goal is to fill it in by november. Happening today, nbc bay area is celebrating Asian Pacific heritage month today. And were holding our annual luncheon today honoring bay area students. About 15 minutes right here at the nbc bay area studio. These students are the winners of the Asian Pacific fund 22nd annual growing up asian in america contest. That event will honor Asian Americans for their community involvement, and presenters include our own mike gitway and janelle wang. Now nbcs micro weather cliekt. Congrats to all of the students and people selected. We have a patio outside of our building here. Today might be a nice day to use it. They have it decorated. It will be beautiful. Dont need the cover because you will want to take in the sunshine as long as it doesnt get too hot. Were good as of right now, but it will start to warm up as we go through the day. Here is a live look outside of morgan hill, Anderson Reservoir looking nice and quiet. Our temperatures have been into the upper 60s. Were at 62 degrees in San Francisco, as you take a live look out there at the castro and city skyline as were seeing all clear skies overhead. Looking at fremont, it is nice and breezy. You see a little bit of a breeze there, looking at the flag. The temperature at 62 degrees. And it still feels comfortable as we look outside in san jose. So the temperature trend through early afternoon will quickly warm up. We are into the low 80s already by 3 00 this afternoon, and then well gradually start to see these temperatures coming back down. By 6 00 youre probably going to be driving around with the windows down, letting in some fresh air. Wont be that warm today, but it is well above average. We should be at about 75 degrees, and as you can see well be about seven degrees above that in evergreemn. High temperatures today, and most of the south bay into the low 80s. Low pete yas up to 79. Walnut creek up to 85 degrees and 61, nice and cool, at half moon bay. 75 in san mateo. San francisco in the Mission District will see a high of 70 degrees today while 82 today in sonoma. All of that sunshine also making for a great day to head out for some baseball. Giants out of town. Might want to check out the as this evening, and at first pitch it will be at 66 degrees with all of the sunshine, but then getting a little bit cool later on tonight with clear skies and temperatures dipping back into the upper 50s. As you may weekend plans if you are going to napa , it is going to be very hot. And if you are spending a lot of Time Outdoors you want to make sure you take it easy, try to get in the shade or find some air conditioning if possible. Well be in the low 90s, up to 91 degrees with the hottest day on sunday. Cooler temperatures, of course, in the sierra. We still have a lot of snow on the ground as we take a live look outside from our heavenly camera. The temperature trend for the weekend starts out in the mid 60s for tomorrow but up to 73 degrees on sunday. And in San Francisco, stays comfortable there. Well have just enough of an onshore flow and ocean breeze to keep temperatures down there. Inland areas and valleys, not much help there. Well see three days of high temperatures in the 90s starting on saturday. I will have another look at the forecast, well check out a few more events coming up later. Thank you, kari. What if your son told you he felt more like your daughter . What if he told you that at five years old or maybe even younger . Investigative reporter joins us now with that story. Reporter when it comes to transgender kids, how young is too young to change a childs name or wardrobe or have them undergo medical procedures so they can live more in line with the gender they identify . Tonight at 11 00 we will introduce you to sevenyearold maya who was born a boy and 12yearold jack who was born a girl. You will hear directly from the kids, their parents and top doctors and researchers around the country cliiincluding here the bay area as we investigate the growing debate as to how to care for transgender care and when medical treatments might be an option. What would you say to people who think kids are too young to make this kind of decision . If you were born into the wrong body, how how young do you think it would be before you would realize that . Like, sure, im a kid, but it doesnt take a genius to realize that im not a girl. Reporter the bay area is home to seven clinics for trans kids. So who are the youngest patients and when can kids start undergoing medical treatment to change their bodies . You can catch our full investigation tonight at 11 00. All right. Begat, thank you very much. If you have a tip for our investigative unit, give us a call, 888996timms. You can send an email to the unit at nbcbayarea. Com. Coming up next, ridesharing to could help you pick up perks. We will show you the two Companies Teaming up to help make your ride stretch farther than the rod. Cal osha is expected to adopt new regulations for refin railways. The call for tougher regulations grew after the fire at the refine railway where 15,000 people became ill. Also, Chelsea Manning posted her first photo after being released from military prison. Manni manning was sentenced to 35 years after leaking military secrets to million. You can see her new look at a woman on our twitter page at nbcbayarea. Com. We will be back in two minutes with more news. Adlib numbers kris 2shot san jose s largest private employer looking for a bounceback on wall street after the worst selloff of 2017 yesterday, and in fact things are coming back a little bit. The dow jones is up 112 points in early trading, the s p up 15, the nasdaq up 54. San joses largest private employer is cutting jobs again. Thats right. Scott ma grew, more layoffs. Yeah, 1100. We tack it on to 5500 the company announcederier. Cisco makes networking equipment, the stuff that makes the internet go. Google showed off technology at the io conference at the shoreline amphitheater on wednesday. It stands for input output. One of the more interesting things making your telephone camera intelligence. Point it at a flower and it tells you what kind. Point it at a marquee, it plays the bands songs for you and buy tickets. Twitter making changes. You may notice you have to click through new user agreements. The system will delivered more tailored ads to you based on what it thinks you are interested in. Twitter thinks im interested in ice cream. It is not wrong and i actually use cascade in the dishwasher and i have children ages 11 to 15. So twitter has got it right. Now, you can ald just this list to your own taste or just opt out all together. Either way you are getting ads. It is up to you as to how personalized you want them to be. Sam and chris. Thank you very much, scott. You can collect free delta miles by hailing a ride with lyft. The airline added the service to its rewards program so that you can earn miles from something you might use more often than air travel. For the launch lyft is offering three miles for every dollar spent on rides to and from the airplane. It takes forever to get enough miles to get a flight, but you will take every one you can get. Up next, we investigate. So youre still making parts . No, i dont think so. What about this part that i bought over the internet . Call 911. Bogus parts found on thousands of airplanes. Im Senior Investigative reporter stephen stock. Coming up, we investigate how these dangerous airplane parts could impact your safety the next time you fly. Hey, folks, before we go to break i want to he sho you how to join our community on the waze application. Leverage the power of us all as well as the power of google. Go to your waze app on iphone or android and in the bottom corner there will be a magnifying glass when you fire up the app. Click on that, click on your na name app the top. Scroll down to team and pick ours, nbc bay area wazers. Thats how you join the community and we help each other out. Well get back to you after this break. Welcome back. 11 31 right now. They are not approved by the faa and they can hurt people if they fail. A continuing investigation discovered bogus parts find their way on to airplanes. And private and commercial plains even, and it is happening more only than you might think. Heres senior investigator stephen stock. Reporter we dug through a decades worth of records and uncovered thousands of instances where unapproved airplane parts were used on commercial aircraft. Though the faa sanctions repair shops and manufacturers who install these bogus parts, we also found that doesnt always stop some companies from staying open even after the faa tells them to stop. Too lone, terrain, pull up. Reporter the computerized voice you are hearing in the cockpit is known as a t cast. Traffic Collision Avoidance system used for 30 years to keep planes from flying into each other or into the ground. Traffic, traffic. Reporter our investigation found the faa issued this warning in 2012 that an unapproved part had been used in a tcas system which could cause them to fail. Unapproved parts are parts that have not been tested oraa proved by the faa to be used during the stresses of flight. In the tcas case the unapproved part had been put into 2500 different commercial airplanes used around the world. 30,000 feet, a bogus part, yeah, it is scary. Reporter steven pantokos has worked as an airplane mechanic his entire adult life. A lot times the operator doesnt know what is going on. He brings an airplane to me and trusts im going to do the right thing. Reporter we found there are some mechanics in repair shops who cut corners and use unapproved or bogus parts. Digging through ten years of federal records we found at least 172 different official reports involving thousands of airplanes where the faa caught suspected unapproved parts or sups on the plane. One record shows a repair station fraudulently put car parts on airplanes, a big nono according to the faa. Is it a problem . Yeah, i mean bogus parts are a problem. Reporter of the 172 reports, at least 17 involved commercial domestic u. S. Carriers, including alaska airlines, delta, jetblue, southwest and us airways. Often the sups are put on commercial airplanes without the companys knowledge. But there are cases like this one. An faa investigation that American Airlines had a, quote, lamp installed in their anticollision light assembles after knowing it was a suspected unapproved part. In its response to the faa in the investigation, American Airlines said its mechanics, quote, removed the part as soon as practicable. You have something manufactured incorrectly, not per spec, it is going to fail. You have a failure, it is going to a problem and it could be a catastrophic one. Reporter in fact, the National Transportation safety board investigators officially ruled unapproved parts played a role in 26 different airplane crashes that caused eight deaths and 20 injuries between 2006 and 2015. So there are unapproved parts floating around out there . Oh, yeah. Reporter rory and sally silva own on call services, buying and selling parts from this hangar in van nuys. Reporter when in doubt, you destroy it. Without a doubt. Reporter he says not everyone is as conscientious or careful as he is. If it doesnt have a good data plate, i dont want to buy it. Nothing to do with it. Woo have our standards. We just follow them. So if somebody is undercutting me, well, then thats just the way it is. You cant stop it really, unfortunately. Nothing we can do about it. Reporter we learned that first happen in april when we bought this fat, an emergency locator transmitter over the internet for 300. Two years ago the faa issued a cease and desist order against the company that makes and sells this elt, ameriking based out of huntington beach. Regulators say they falsified documents used to show compliance with faa regulation goes and ordered Company Officials to stop advertising, manufacturing and selling the elt. Faa records show they didnt comply. Hello. Looking for victor or keith. Reporter after leaving several voicemail or email messages and getting no response, we paid a visit to them in huntington beach. Reporter im from nbc bay area in San Francisco. We want to know why the faa is telling you guys to cease and desist making parts. Im not keith, so we im sorry. Reporter im sorry. So can you have them call me . Reporter with the doors wide open we saw a worker putting parts in a box and a stack of boxes that looked identical to the one containing the elt we purchased about. Reporter i want to know if you are making parts that the faa call the faa. Go ahead and call faa. Reporter the faa says dont make the parts. Are you still making parts . No, i dont think so. Reporter what about this part i bought over the internet . Call 911. Reporter when asked to leave, we did. While a bad elt wont make an airplane crash, it can delay rescue crews from finding it after it does. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people that, you know, want to make a quick buck and buy something off ebay. Reporter in an emailed statement American Airlines said, quote, we are always vigilant to validate parts against the manufacturers specifications. In the very rare instance we come across an sup, we immediately take action to remove the parts from our system. Delta Airlines Told us theyre cooperating in the faa in the case involving a part on their airplane and that each part they purchase goes through an faaapproved inspection process. Other airlines and manufacturers either had no comment or did not get back to us. You can read the full statements on our website. Go to nbcbayarea. Com weinvestigate. With the investigative unit, im stephen stock. Now back to you. If you have a tip for our investigative unit, give us a call at 888996 tips or send an email to theunit nbcbayarea. Com. Shots fired in a neighborhood and an hours long standoff overnight. We are learning detectives believe the man behind it might have been under the influence of drugs. We first brought you the story as breaking news on today in the bay starting at 4 30. It all began before midnight when witnesses say two neighbors got into some sort of argument. Thats when one fired multiple shots and proceeded to barricade himself inside his home. Neighbors say that there have been problems at that house before. I dont know why. I believe he was on drugs as far as i know. Reporter your neighbor . Yes. Reporter and what did he do allegedly . Tonight . Reporter yeah. Yeah, exactly what i explained. Came out, fired his gun, broke one of the windows at the house, and shot and the sheriffs came and pretty much took over from there. Reporter you see the sheriffs presence there. This went on for about five hours in materially morning hours, the suspect finally surrendering peacefully about 5 00. Nobody was hurt. It is a Violent Crime at a poplar park. San Francisco Police right now investigating a stabbing at delores park. Police say somebody was stabbed several times during an attack by five to six young people, and it is not like it happened late at night. This was early in the evening yesterday, about 5 00. The victim was rushed to a hospital and were still awaiting word right now on their condition. The sfpd is asking anybody that saw something to please call them. It was an emotional day in the sierra lamar murder case. Today her parents testified very tearfully. Angelina garciatorres was convicted of first degree murder. Now the jury is deciding whether he spends rest of his life in presson presson prison or gets the death penalty. The judge recently overturned a murder verdict in a different case after determining the lead detective gave false testimony in that one. The same detective was a key witness in the sierra lamar trial. No indication if this will impact this case. Cooking that was left unchecked, thats the cause of an overnight house fire in vallejo. Firefighters posting these photos afterwards. The home is on newcastle drive not far from columbus parkway. The fire started shortly before midnight and the firefighter attending suffered a minor injury. The red cross is helping the three people who live there find other accommodations. Oakland Mills College is declaring a financial emergency for the first time in its 165year history. The college is facing a 9 million budget shortfall. The east bay times reports that the Womens College along with other single sex colleges struggled to attract students in recent years. The college could be forced the layoff more than 30 staff and faculty members. Mills graduate school is coed but talks of doing the same at the undergraduate level faced fierce opposition. Well, that band needs no introduction. One of the biggest rock groups on the planet wrapping up their concert at levi stadium last night. U2 was on tour for the 30th anniversary of their joshua tree album. About 50,000 people were there to be able to take all of this in. Our nbc bay area sky ranger was hovering over levi as this was just an epic performance. The vta and caltran ran late service last night, the show went well past the citys event curfew which was supposed to be 10 00. An estimated 6500 people used vta to try to get home. If youre going to break curfew, you better be u2. Temperatures are rising around the bay area. Kari is tracking the warm weekend. As we get a live loot at tiburon, we see all of the sunshine that will heat things up, especially inland. We will talk about the difference in the temperatures between the cost and the valleys, thats coming up next. The extended warranty on his car has a refund provision in the fine print, but exercising that option goes nowhere. Im consumer investigator chris chmura. Nbc bay area responds next. On september 9, 2010, pg e learned a tragic lesson we can never forget. This gas pipeline ruptured in san bruno. The explosion and fire killed eight people. Pg e was convicted of six felony charges including five violations of the u. S. Pipeline safety act and obstructing an ntsb investigation. Pg e was fined, placed under an outside monitor, given five years of probation, and required to perform 10,000 hours of community service. We are deeply sorry. We failed our customers in san bruno. While an apology alone will never be enough, actions can make pg e safer. And thats why weve replaced hundreds of miles of gas pipeline, adopted new Leak Detection technology that is onethousand times more sensitive, and built a stateoftheart gas operations center. We can never forget what happened in san bruno. Thats why were working every day to make pg e the safest Energy Company in the nation. Nbc bay area respond to a man who had an issue getting a refund for an extended warranty on his car. So he decided to reach out to us for some help. Consumer investigator chris chmura joins us with the story. Reporter when falcon patel bought a new car from honda Stevens Creek in 2009, he bought a 1500 extended warranty. Well, the contract said he could get a refund if he didnt make any claims, and he didnt. So when the warranty was up, duncan sought his refund, but the Warranty Company had gone belly up. He said that they would refund the warranty but it never happened. We reached to to Stevens Creek office and they cut a check for 1500. The company did not respond to our request for comment. The refund for not using the warranty, it is not nevery poll. If you have a consumer complaint, let us know. 888996tips. This weekend is absolutely chock full of activities. Are you putting on your camping hat . Yes, were going camping. I have been trying to put it off. Is it by a lake . It is by a lake but one of those no contact lakes. Cant swim in. Cant swim in it. It is going to be too hot for that. A wine weekend. Bring your kiddie pool. How they going to fill it up . I dont know. But you want to do something to try to stay cool this weekend. It feels very nice as you head out there, so youre going out, going to enjoy the afternoon. It is 70 degrees right now in sunol but all of the sunshine overhead will help heat things up and maybe you want to head to mendocino coast. A live look out there. It is a beautiful early afternoon with temperatures now at 62 degrees. It will be much cooler along the coast, and in spots like san jose will be hitting the 90s going into the weekend. Look where we are right now. It is 70 in livermore, 69 in san jose, palo alto 64 degrees, but already in the low 70s for santa rosa and fairfield, and the temperatures in the inland valleys will be really hot as we go into saturday, especially sunday. This is where were headed today, up to 82 degrees in los gatos and milpitas 79 degrees. 77 in hayward. Some spots not bad at all, in fact, just perfect. Antioch will be up to 84 degrees. 75 in san mateo. San jose will be at 65 degrees through evening will side and 81 in novato. 83 today in santa rosa. If you are making plans for the weekend, on sunday this is the unofficial start of summer, the bay to breakers happening in San Francisco. It will be cool to start, some low 60s and then at 65 degrees, a lot of costumed runners heading out there. Towards the end of the race it starts to climb in the low 70s, hanging out in San Francisco early afternoon low 70s there. On saturday in oakland we have the jazz and Arts Festival at san antonio park. Throughout the morning it will be comfortable but you see how quickly the temperatures go up, in the upper 70s in the afternoon. On saturday in santa rosa heading to the north bay for the rose parade, it will be hot there. This is one of the spots you have to make sure to bring lots of bottles for water and troy to find places to take breakness the air conditioning. High temperatures in if upper 80s by 3 00 to 4 00 in the afternoon. A nice weekend for heading to the coast, heading to the beaches, a little farther south. Santa barbra up to 80 degrees on sunday. The warmest day of the weekend. Closer to home, sanltd ah crews will be at 76 degrees tomorrow for the high temperature, on saturday 79 degrees and sunday up to 82 degrees with a nice little breeze. Really getting toasty for Russian River valley, up to 90 degrees on sunday as you are sitting out there with all of that sunshine. It does stay fairly mild in San Francisco. Highs reaching into the low to mid 70s, 76 degrees by the end of the weekend. Sunday will be the warmest day of the week inland. Still hot on monday, up to 91 degrees, and then the temperatures start to gradually come down by the middle of next week, chris and sam. Maybe, sam, you can come with me. Yeah, thats what i was envisioning for my weekend plans. You call it sunscreen, i call it suntan lotion. You think it is weird. Kind much funny. No matter what you call it, it is supposed to keep you safe from harmful rays. What is actually in your sunscreen . We will test some out before the summer and the result might shock you. On some of the country s top sunscreens. A new study by Consumer Reports is throwing shade on some of the countrys top sunscreen. So with beach season around the corner, this new study by Consumer Reports is trying to help sunscreen buyers avoid getting burned. The surprising results found a lot of the spf numbers on the outside of the layer are higher than the protection on lotion and sprays in the bottle. Reporter a major notice on sunscreen just in time for summer. A new study says the advertised level of spf protection on labels could be critically off. In a report released this morning, Consumer Reports says some sun veens failed to provide the level of protection on the package. Of the 58 evaluated by Consumer Reports this year, 20 tested at less than half their labeled number. You potentially have the risk of really damaging your skin if you are relying on it to protect yourself. Reporter according to the study, five products labelled with an spf of 50 or 50 plus a an actual level between zero and nine. Consumer reports called out natural sunscreens as well. We found that the natural sunscreens, and those are the ones that contain either titanium dioxide or zinc oxide as active ingredients, consistently do not perform as well as the products with a chemical active ingredient. Reporter the fda reportedly does not regularly test sunscreens on the market, leaving that responsibility to the manufacturers themselves. The fda echoing that policy in a statement to nbc news saying, manufacturers of all drug products, including sunscreens, are subject to fda inspection and may be subject to fda action if they are found to be not in compliance with federal law. Also troubling to consumers, inconsistency within brands themselves. We had some products that of one particular brand that did very well in our test and came in higher in our ratings and others that didnt. Reporter the personal Care Products council which represents many poplar sunscreen brands disagrees with the findings saying in part it appears Consumer Reports testing methods are not consistent with those used by the fda and therefore are not the same testing as required by the product manufacturers to assign the spf designation. Several products got high marks. 60 melt in sunscreen milk and traileder joe spf 50 got perfect. Equate walmarts brand and copper tone water babies were rated excellent with at least 85 of advertised spf. That was jo ling kent reporting. Experts say there are a few things to make sure your sunscreen is as effective as possible. Though it may not say it on the label, some experts say you should shake the bottle to make sure that the active ingredients are evenly distributed and make sure you store it at room temperature, which is really hard if you are at the pool or at the beach. Right. It is 95 degrees all day long, so that doesnt last long. We buy the same one all the time and we got one bad batch and it was first day of vacation. Interesting. Chris sanchez mama suggested sunscreens for you and your family. Well be right back. Who are these people . The Energy Conscious people among us say small actions can add up to something. Humongous. A little thing here. A little thing there. Starts to feel like a badge maybe millions can wear. Who are all these caretakers, advocates too . Turns out, its californians its me and its you. Dont stop now, its easy to add to the routine. Join Energy Upgrade california and do your thing. Food. Water. Internet we need it to live. But what we dont need are surprises, like extra monthly fees. I see you, fee, played by legendary actress anjelica huston. You got me, mark. Internet for one everyday simple price and no extra monthly fees. All right. Get your cameras ready. Happening today, unveiling in San Francisco of what some are calling a bold new work of art. This is exciting. For the past year crews have been working on a 92foot stainless steel venus sculpture at trinity place. It is a heyrise apartment complex on 8th and market street. The statue is the creation of renowned artist lawrence argen. It is the size of the statue of liberty. For todays unveiling at 1 00, developers promise to have legendary singer Frankie Avalon on hand to sing the song venus. That is enormous, the size of the statue of liberty in the middle of San Francisco. We have to check it out. And you dont have to get on a ferry either. It will be cool if you are heading into San Francisco, one of the few places where it will not be blazing hot. Highs in the low 70s. Mid 70s by saturday and sunday. Inland areas today up to 85, and then expected to jump up to 93 degrees by sunday. All right. Well, wear your sunscreen. Uhhuh. Keep it cool. Make sure it works. The ones you test, of course. The ones you have test. Thanks for joining us. Next newscast is tonight at 5 00. All right. The latest news that you need online. Have a great day. Were live from new york in five, four, three, two, one. Wow, look at that shot. Apparently it is going to go up to 93 degrees today, natalie. For now we enjoy it while it lasts. Day four of our week takeover here in new york. We are talking about this stunning new information we got today that fox news chairman and former ceo, roger ailes has died. 77 years old. Therere
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