Before the aid happened. That is true, but only after congress began an investigation. Only after the president s lawyers learned of a whistleblower complaint. Reporter both sides aiming to persuade a nationwide audience while the man at the center of the storm its a witch hunt. Its a hoax. Reporter says hes not even watching. Alice barr, nbc news, washington. And that really is the concern for republicans that this is just a partisan attack against the president. Today we saw two of our bay area democrats, the representatives Eric Swalwell and Jackie Speier in action. Representative speier asked one witness about his concerns that ukraines president was being pressured. Yes, maam. I wrote a memo to the file on august 16th. But we dont have access to that memo, do we . I submitted to it the state department subject to the subpoena. And we have not received one piece of paper from the state department. The president tweeted multiple times about this hearing, and he put in all caps, never trumpers. Mr. Kent, are you a never trumper . I am a career nonprofessional who serves whatever president is duly elected and carries out the foreign policies of that president. On the flip side, what ambassador bill taylor was asked, if he is a never trumper, he answered no, sir. There are a lot of people and a lot of information to digest with all of this. We have this whos who chart on our website. Each persons name, picture, and how theyre involved in the investigation. Now, if youll notice that little bar code, the qr code on the left side of the screen, we made it really toes see this chart. Simply take out your phone, you can do it right now, point your camera at the qr code on the bottom left of your screen, put out your camera, point to it, and that will instantly connect you with that chart. The mysterious vaping illness killing people across the country has hit very close to home. Today the first vapingrelated death reported in the bay area. 45yearold Amanda Arconti lived in vacaville and was taken to an emergency room in novato last friday with serious respiratory problems, and thats where she passed away. Today the Marin County Public Health office says her death meets all the criteria for being connected to ecigarette use. Dr. Matt willis says the victim was healthy and just started vaping six months ago. Were learning the hard way that just because its safer doesnt mean its safe. It may be the lesser of two evils, but there are Serious Health concerns associated with vaping. The Coroners Office in marin county is doing an autopsy and it could be several weeks if not months for the results to come back. If this death is indeed connected to vape, it would be the first in the bay area and the fourth in california. Right now there are three confirmed cases here. The cdc is keeping track. So far 39 deaths officially linked to vaping. Theyve been reported in 24 states, including washington state, illinois, indiana, three in georgia, as well as the district of columbia. The patients have been as young and 17 years old and as old as 75. Today the state puc voted unanimously to investigate pg es recent power outages. The investigation will look at pg e and other utilities to determine whether they complied with requirements around the safety shutoff. Pg e, as you recalled, turned off power lines in high winds and extreme fire conditions to prevent fires from sparking. But there was a lot of criticism about the communication and how the plan was implemented. The executive director of the Utility Reform Network agrees with this probe. When the cpuc first approved them, they approved them as a last resort. And when you shut off 2. 5, 3 million people, that sure dont feel like a last resort to me. Governor gavin newsom was also called for total reform here. Dependenting on the outcome of the investigation, there could be an enforcement phase as well. Well, San Francisco elected a new district attorney, but chesa boudin wont take office for several weeks. Instead, suzy loftus will serve as interim d. A. Through january 8. Loftin conceded to boudin over the weekend following boudins razorthin lead. New Surveillance Video is released to help capture the killers of a tech ceo in santa cruz county. The Sheriffs Department released this video which shows three men walking out of an alley in Pleasure Point on october 1. One of the suspects is carrying a duffel bag, while another has a rifle. The Sheriffs Department believe these men killed millionaire tushar atre. The 50yearold was killed after being kidnapped from his Pleasure Point home near santa cruz. His body was later found in a remote area of the Santa Cruz Mountains near properties he on the other hand. 25,000 reward is being offered to find his killers. Its a problem thats plagued a lot of neighborhoods in the east bay, garbage dumping. Now some of those neighborhoods could get some relief. A state lawmaker is taking aim at cleaning up the litter and cracking down on those dumping the trash. Nbc bay areas Jodi Hernandez joins us in richmond with the details. Jodi . Reporter raj, this richmond neighborhood is one of many thats been littered with garbage. The city of richmond tells me more than 5,000 mattresses have been dumped out here over the last year. This is just one of them. But help could be on the way. Its bad. It just looks bad. Reporter anna cant stand the scene outside her richmond home. Her neighborhood has become a dumping ground, constantly littered with garbage. Weve seen animals, dead animals, everything, you name it is there. Its just horrible. Reporter its a problem thats plaguing neighborhoods across the east bay. We found children today walking home from school amid trash. And piles of garbage you can clean up and you can educate, but if you dont enforce, if you dont enforce, it wont stop. Reporter but alameda and contra costa counties are about to crack down on the litter bugs. An east bay Assembly Member has secured 3 4 of a Million Dollars to help focus on enforcement. This funding of 750,000 allows the funding of two fulltime officers, one in each county working together in order to build networks, investigate, and stop illegal dumping. We can use all of the help we can possibly get at this time. Reporter richmonds head of Code Enforcement says her crews simply cant keep up with all the garbage. She looks forward two the day her neighborhood is clean enough for her kids to go outside and play. Hopefully they do something. Thats my hope. That they have to do something. For us. Reporter now youre looking at a surveillance camera. This has also been a huge tool in combatting the garbage problems. The city of richmond has ten surveillance cameras up around the city, but thats not nearly enough. This new Pilot Program will also help fund cameras like those there. So they are hoping that this program gets under way soon. We are told hopefully by the end of the year. Reporting live in richmond, im Jodi Hernandez, nbc bay area news. Thanks, jodi. Just into our newsroom, the media wasnt invited, but big business was. Governor newsom was in not view today meeting with executives from google, facebook, pinterest and other companies. One subject, how they can support local communities to create affordable places to live. With the growing homeless population, many of them are students, and many of them study at san jose state. Now airbnb is teaming up with the city of san jose to help those students. San jose state says it has some about 100 students struggling with where to stay while theyre at school. Today san jose, along with airbnb and the bill Wilson Center launched a 100day Pilot Program to connect san jose students with local homes on airbnb. The money comes from a grant to the bill Wilson Center. Airbnb says its platform will be used to find temporary housing for students who need a place to stay, anywhere for a couple of weeks to a couple of months. Any time you have any student thats coming to you saying i cannot be successful in school because i dont have a place to live thats safe, thats steady, or just dont have a place to live period, you have a crisis. Well, after 100 days, if this program is not working, or if it is working, Officials Say theyll seek additional fund, both from companies and the city itself to try to keep it up and running. Its a dark blotch on stanfords past, the Sexual Assault of a young woman by brock turner. But now the university has agreed with the young woman, Chanel Miller, on how it will be remembered. A plaque will be placed on the spot where the attack took place. Nbc bay areas Marianne Favro is live at stanford university. And marianne, the school agreeing to allows own words to be written on that plaque. Yes, they did this. Comes after a lot of pressure from both students and faculty. They held protests. They signed petitions. Students say this is a victory. But now theyre concerned about another plaque the university plans to put up in the same garden. Some stanford students felt so strongly Sexual Assault victim Chanel Miller should have a plaque with her own choice of words here at this on campus garden, they put up small engraved plaque of their own. Now according to this letter from stanford provost, the university will finally put up plaque with the same words. Comments originally rejected by stanford. Stanford agreed more than three years ago to install the plaque with her chosen quote on it. This agreement was in writing, and it was legal settlement agreement. They broke that agreement, and its time to put up the plaque now and stop stalling. Reporter provost says one reason for the change of heart was an association of students. It found 38 of undergrad female stanford students had reported having some kind of nonconsensual sexual contact. Drell said the survey results provide a clear message, we need to confront Sexual Violence openly and aggressively at stanford. The University Also plans to put up another marker at the site where miller was sexually assaulted by former stanford swimmer brock turner. Some students question that move. We dont know what theyre putting on there, and i think thats the big question mark is are they trying to impose their own narrative of what happened in this space rather than letting chanels words speak for themselves. The provost says the second plaque is going to go up at to the garden and it will contain some type of resource information. The exact wording of that plaque has not yet been determined. A and the University Says it has reached out the Chanel Miller to ask fog her approval on the new words on the plaque. Marianne favro, nbc bay area news. Thank you. Up next here at 5 00, the giants introducing their new manager, and hes apologizing on his first day on the job. Plus finally back home. Why it took seven decades for one family to get the remains of their loved one who died in the korean war. Im chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. Cloudy today. You can see it on our walnut creek camera. Well let you know when well start to see a break in those clouds, and an important update on two systems next week and a rain outlook. Thats in about six minutes. The impeachment hearings go public. And just what is in some of those vaping products making people sick . Our investigation reveals some shock results on nightly news. If you see wires down, treat them all as if they are hot and energized. Stay away from any downed wire, call 911 and call pg e right after so we can both respond out and keep the public safe. Day one on the job, and he is already on damage control. The giants new manager gabe kapler apologized for his past while trying to embrace the orae park, the 44yearold kapler was introduced as bruce bochys replacement. The decision has left the giants fan base somewhat fractured. Not so much because of kaplers manager as a manager, but because how he previously dealt with a serious issue. In 2015 while he was dodgers director of player development, he reportedly mishandled multiple charges of Sexual Assault against some of his minor league players. Im sorry that i didnt make all the right moves. Everything that i did, i acted on from a place of goodness and from my heart and wanting to do the right thing, but i was naive. I was in over my skis, and trying to do things on my own when it was very clear that i needed counsel. Kapler said he met not only with giants management, but also with the retired bruce bochy and buster posey during the hiring process. He signs a threeyear contract. A state law meant to create more gender equality in boardrooms has face in order charges. With five Board Members to now a sacramentobased law firm is suing on behalf of a retired corporate lawyer that lawyer currently sits on the board of a security and Health Care Systems manufacturer, along with six other men. This is the second legal challenge against the law this year. Vice president mike pence is in california this evening and flying into the aarea in just a couple hours. He started the day in orange county, where he was the keynote speaker at a Trump Victory luncheon. He flies into Moffett Field in mountainview in about two hours and will tour the nasa Ames Research center. That tour will happen tomorrow. Hell speak to about 200 workers there. He will then return to washington, d. C. An emotional reunion for a Northern California family at sfo. The remains of a Family Member who went missing in the korean war nearly 70 years ago is finally returned to u. S. Soil. Nbc bay areas pete serratos is there for that reunion. Reporter for more than 70 years, the whereabouts of Army Sergeant fellowship mendoza were unknown. His 92yearold sister who now lives in vallejo describes the agony of not knowing what happened to her brother. Waiting for him all the time. Waiting for him. Reporter after decades of waiting, the remains of Sergeant Mendoza were finally returned to u. S. Soil, arriving this morning at sfo. He went missing in action back in 1950 while serving in the korean war. His remains were identified by officials with the armed forces who did an analysis on remains from christine war Service Members that were turned over by north korea following last years much talked about summit between donald trump and north Korean Leader kim jongun. We want to make sure he gets the proper recognition that he deserves and he gets the honor that he has served for our country. And were proud that were able to bring him home. Sergeant mendoza finally receives that recognition today. His casket draped with an american flag, escorted off the plane by a color guard. He will be laid to rest with his brothers this friday. And the bittersweet moment is providing much needed closure for his sister who can finally say goodbye to her brother. I am happy. Hes in heaven, i know. Pete serratos, nbc bay area news. A special day for that family. Ere with us. It finally looked like fall, a little bit like winter, but with no rain. Its kind of frustrating out there. Wed love to get some rainfall in here. The pattern is going to shift a little bit more as we head throughout tomorrows forecast. So lets take you into our microclimate weather tonight, and that is what we all dealt with. The cloud cover. Most of it is cloud cover and fog mixing in. A little bit of ground pollution. But the air quality is moderate. If youre looking at this saying is this all that air quality . Again, it is not. Its a lot of cloud cover, and that fog, just to reiterate that. As we look at the temperatures, its already starting to drop. 59 degrees in san jose right now. And we hold on to the overcast through tonight and more 50s moving on in. Now the biggest change i see happening as we head throughout the next 24 hours, its the area of High Pressure thats kept a relatively still pattern the past several days beginning to move off towards the east. And that is important because its going to make way for a cooler pattern to start to roll on in. And thats going help to drop temperatures as you move through tomorrow. So i dont see the overcast budging for the morning forecast. Were going stay with the cloud cover yet again. Not that much in the way of sunglasses needed. But probably a light jacket. Low 50s from the trivalley through the peninsula and also through the south bay. And a very similar forecast in the east bay. 51 for you. San francisco 53 with possibly some drizzle in sf. If youre commuting in there for work, be careful. Possibly some slick spots and the north bay at 48. Now as we take a closer look at tomorrow mornings forecast, there is some of the drizzle at the coastline. Here is the frustrating thing. By the afternoon, the clouds stay put. Were going have more on that rain outlook coming up in about a minute and a half. And well talk about some storm systems moving close to the bay area next week. But i do want to focus in on those temperatures as we head through tomorrow, and its going to drop off. By about 3 to 6 degrees. You might need the jacket into the afternoon. 63 in morgan hill. 64 in san jose. And 65 in milpitas. Right through the east bay, 62 in hayward. 58 in oakland. Back to pittsburg, 66. The peninsula looks very similar here. 65 in palo alto. And chilly in daly city. 57 for you. Plenty of 50s from the embarcadero down through the ingleside and right up