Marched the pallbearer down the street they fear more names will be added. They are opposed with a project aimed at improving travel times for buses headed to and from downtown and the construction and changes that come. They are putting in a project now that will take away 25 of general parking from the core of the commercial corridor which will put the nail in the coffin of several businesses here. Reporter along with removal of parking the project will be followed by another project years later. Merchants say years of construction will be devastating. Is if they say 2 is automatically 4. Reporter people have been urging the city to combine the projects. Business owners here in the Richmond District are concerned over bureaucracy and construction and this comes on top of other concerns that other Business Owners are also voicing about Public Safety and blight. The chairman of gobs, a 165 yearold store in san francisco, took out a fullpage ad in the sunday chronicle with an open letter to city leaders to clear up homeless encampments, open air drug use and restore Public Safety. At the Event Organizer said they invited the mayor to join. We reached out to her office and have not gotten a response. The only city official at the event was a supervisor from district 11. He is planning on running a mayor for mayor. I think at the end of the day if we dont do enough to keep our streets clean and make sure that safety is the number one priority, and again, the buck stops with the mayor. Reporter asf mta spokesperson says they have been working with neighbors about the Improvement Plan and they have reduced the number of Parking Spaces that will be lost and they estimate it will take three months to complete and changes should help reduce any transit delays when the sewer Improvement Project delays. In san francisco, sergio quintana, nbc bay area news. Back to school for more Bay Area School districts and many are finding the person teaching their class is only a substitute. California is facing a Teacher Shortage so severe that the state School Superintendent held a summit to try to recruit more teachers. Here is nbc bay areas damon trujillo. Reporter we are at captain jason doll elementary and at the first day of school there is already a substitute on campus today. The first day of school has been a thrill in miss ariellas first grade class. Its the upper grades at Franklin MckinleySchool District that are cramped. Our goal was to try to keep our fourth and sixth grade class at no more than 28, but that proved to be impossible. A Teacher Shortage bumped that number to 32 students per class. Today the superintendent visited several of his schools. He spent the entire summer trying to recruit new teachers and still failed to teacher short. So substitutes are filling in. One of them in captain jason m dahl special ed class. We have been looking for teachers to fill positions. Reporter she spent the weekend setting up the classroom for her substitute teacher. Parents say they want nothing less than permanent, mollified teachers at the head of class. We are excited about what the day will bring. Reporter the Teacher Shortage is the reason the state hosted a summit today to address the issue. Tony thurman says the state has to be more involved with recruitment and he says it needs to increase compensation, prioritize training and improve working conditions and explore all other strategies. Building a pipeline. We know that when young people and students from communities that we serve aspire to become a teacher, if we give them resources we can do great things. Reporter the Franklin Mckinley superintendent says thurman might want to visit his district where teachers salaries do not come close to keeping up with the Silicon Valley costofliving. Some have to commute one or two hours to come to work here and be able to also afford a home. Reporter thurman is also forming a statewide teacher Recruitment Coalition in effort to address the shortage crisis. In san jose, damian trujillo, nbc bay area news. More legal drama for President Trump who could be hit with a new indictment in georgia. Today the Fulton CountyDistrict Attorney presented her case to a grand jury. D. A. Fani willis accused mr. Trump of interfering with the 2020 election in the state of georgia. Her evidence includes a 2021 phone call to then secretary of state and in that call mr. Trump was heard saying i just want to find 11,780 votes. This all comes one week before the first republican president ial debate. If he is indicted in atlanta this week as we anticipate we will have the front runner for the republican nomination for president out on bail in four different jurisdictions. Mr. Trump insist he is innocent and he blasted this case on social media today. Abortionrights will be a hot topic as the race for president heats up. Meanwhile individual states work to support restricted those rights. Just last week ohio voters soundly rejected a republican backed measure that would have made it more difficult to change the states constitution by requiring support from 60 of voters rather than majority. Republican leaders in ohio wanted that measure passed because the ballot measures this upcoming november. This would guarantee a womans right to choose. Our political analyst Larry Gersten is here to discuss this topic topic. The situation in ohio, is that a trend or a one off . This is amazing, jenelle. Do you remember the Dobbs Decision . This said this is not the role for the federal government. One by one we have seen states deal with it instead as a result. Six states now have gone ahead and said a woman has a right to choose and we will not go with restrictions. Thats okay, thats interesting, california and vermont, but kentucky, kansas. These kind of states are very unusual. You would not expect it there. Takes us to ohio. Ohio votes and now we see in november they will have that issue in ohio the same way they had it in the six states. Ohio is a pretty red state. It could be another case where abortion is a right in ohio so different from what anyone expected. To answer your question its not a one of, it may well be part of a trend. What about inside the 2024 election . Hot is not the word for this topic. Its hot in 2022 and hot no you see in this chart how important abortion is in your vote. This art says for 29 of the voters th will make their vote on what the candidate says. If the candidate is prchoice they are likely to vote. 29 and for the democrats its 33 . Republans, 10 points less. In a close election that 10 point difference could make the difference in the outcome. Thats how critical this issue is right now. A third of the voters say i am not voting unless i believe my candidate is going the way i want them to go. So they will be voicing that a lot. Whats the take away . The take away is this election will be very close. If you have an hot issue like abortion that has people riled up, that could make the difference one way or another. Right now on the edge for the democrats, but who knows . Right now its hot and its not going away. Dobbs is still alive more than one year later. All right, Larry Gersten, thank you. And we are not done. Much more news. Chris, take away. This month we are clearing the shelters. Some dogs and cats need help going the final mile to their final homes. I show you how volunteers are stepping up and how you can get involved as well. Thats next. I am chief meteorologist jeff ranieri and we are tracking thunderstorm activity. This is a very special month for us. Our nbc bay area and telemundo family is clearing the shelters. We are helping placed pets into loving families like yours. We are hosting big pet adoptions. Nbcs chris camaro takes us behind the scenes with a special guest. This is conrad. Imagine if our dogs and cats could talk. What would they say . He would probably ask for a second dinner. If some of the cats in clear the shelters could talk, they would tell you a secret about an unusual trip they took that likely saved their lives. On the surface its all fun and games at berkeley humane, but behind the scenes the staff is scrambling. We are reacting to a crisis not just in california but across the country. Reporter executive director jeffries or rex said shelters all over are crowded. Case in point . County. Jackie can is with Orange County animal care. We have taken in over 3000 kittens. Reporter berkeley humane is answering that distress call. From its humble home berkeley humane has become a heart warning ana nalu. Bringing in pets from thousands of miles away to find them forever home including some of those Southern California kittens. If we think they have a better chance of getting adopted then it makes sense to bring them here. Reporter someone south drives north while a volunteer up north drive south. In San Luis Obispo a 15 minute handover to save the cats nine lives. Meet alan jacobs and her dog, cole tran. He is a berkeley alum. Reporter allen is the volunteer chauffeur for the next kitten swap. Its about a five hour drive. Each way. She will log 459 miles behind the wheel to collect as many as 30 Southern California kittens for adoption in berkeley. It a lifesaving trip. The older they get, the harder they can be to adopt out. Reporter berkeleys compassionate campaign is special, though not exactly unique. Nationally many cats and dogs are chris conjuring crisscrossing the country to find their home. We have 38 dogs for that one. Reporter and all it takes a few weeks of logistics for the people to make a lifetime of difference for the animals. This requires effort. Its worth it. Reporter pet lovers going the extra mile to help clear the shelters. It is definitely a chance at a life for these animals where they might not otherwise have it. You should see those kittens up for adoption later this month during clear the shelters and of the story inspired you to help drive around dogs and cats or help out berkeley humane in some other way, scan the qr code on your screen to visit eir website. Thank you so much, chris an for a look at our clear the shelters calendar you can look atour nbcbayarea. Com website. Our team will be at san franciscos spca on saturday then oakland zoo on sunday. Then next saturday and sunday Santa Clara Animal Services in san martin as well as berkeley humane. And chris mentioned you can also find little kittens and dogs, rabbits as well as turtles. I have been checking the website and i think we will find a forever pet. My daughter has been asking me for years. You have not gotten one yet . We are. Thats so exciting. Its like having another kid. What do we do when we travel . Very exciting. Our weather back here across the bay area is certainly exciting on many different levels. We have heat and humidity and we are tracking thunderstorms. Microclimate weather here on sunday. We do have thunderstorms developing to the north. All of this activity continues to move. One thing certainly keeping our attention is a thunderstorm developing over mount hamilton. Its continuing to redevelop and it now has more of a footing that it has grabbed on the direction its heading. We also have hail. A severe thunderstorm certainly by many accounts. The issue is a lot of it is getting held up here in the higher elevation, but it does look like some of this rainfall will hold up here into sonoma by 6 25 tonight through sunol, be ready. Maybe even pleasanton through some of this heavy rain and potentially lightning strikes. We have course have more updates as we continue and we will be tracking this one no doubt for you. All of this is part of the same system that got here last week heres the deal. It will just sit and linger all weekend long hoping to bring in some of that humidity and thunderstorm chances, even some fog for the morning. It felt tropical kind of like florida and we will see that continue as we roll through tomorrows forecast. You can see fog tomorrow and spotty drizzle. Central valley tomorrow afternoon, right there, more thunderstorm chances bubbling up. Best chance will be right here over the sierra as we head through tomorrow. As you head back to school tomorrow, best chance thunderstorms over the sierra with a half to three quarters of an inch. You may not need a jacket tomorrow morning, so they starting off with 65, tri valley, 67. Peninsula, 63. East bay, 64. San francisco, 59. Daytime highs for tomorrow will be hot especially inland valleys with humidity. You can get dehydrated fast. 95 in morgan hill. 99, antioch. 98, pleasanton. Eighty four, hayward. 83, san mateo. San francisco, 74, downtown. Napa, 92. Doing any traveling . Watch out for thunderstorms as well. New york city, washington, and orlando. 101, new orleans. Phoenix back up to 111. Forecast in the 70s through the next days. Cooler 60s this weekend. Inland valleys drop to 88 by friday, but i am keeping a 50 chance of storms as we roll right into tomorrow, wednesday, thursday and fridays forecast. We will have another check of that radar coming up in 10 minutes. Its very florida of us, isnt it . Yes. Coming up, questions about other galaxies. Pictures from the webb telescope. The most active volcano in europe is at it again. This time it brought travel woes to italian airport. Last night mount etna first into action on the italian island of sicily. The volcano erupted several times overnight sending hot lava and ash into the sky. The lava flow stopped by don but ash is still coming from one of the craters this morning. Flights have been canceled. Stunning new images from the james webb telescope. Deep space. A blob of light that looks like a . The glowing infrared images were released by nasa. Science still studying the makeup of the origins of that mysterious object and shape. Some suss speculate its a pair of galaxies that merged together that formed what appears to be a . Out there in space. And it reminds us most everything out there is a question. The Olympic Village for paris 2024 is under construction. Olympic village is set to house more than 14,000 athletes and staff during next years olympics. Now, 174 of those apartments have been put on the market. For potential buyers to live in after the game. Eventually the village is expected to be converted into accommodations for 6000 people. 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The rays will be without their best player, that guy, shortstop wander franco placed on restriction list as Major League Baseball looks into his social media posts concerning his alleged relationship with a girl in his home country of the dominican republic. Did you watch the preseason game of the 49ers and raiders . Yesterday in las vegas, brock purdy and most of the starters on both teams did not play but we did see a lot of trey lance. Remember, he was supposed to be the 49ers franchise quarterback and instead he may not even make this team. He was sacked, hesitant and nearly picked off in the end zone. The raiders crushed the 49ers, 347. Definitely good and bad. It felt good to get that out there. Its gotten off to a rough start. I dont put that all on trey lance by any means. The whole offense was sloppy to start. I didnt enjoy that game by any means today, but a lot of guys got a lot of valuable reps and it gives them a chance to make our team i dont think any 49ers team enjoyed that game. We will see what happens next week and when it comes to trey lance on the backup quarterback situation. The niners host the broncos at levi stadium saturday night and the raiders will take on the rams. The regular season kicks off september 10th. Allegiant stadium was a sea of red. 49ers fans. Jessica agguire joins us now with whats coming up next. Right now at 6 00 alameda District Attorney at a troubling spot once again, pamela rice and her boyfriend as well as his role in the d. A. S office. There was nothing you could do. It was that fast. Picking up the pieces, the recovery push in maui and the growing anger from survivors who want answers from the government. Clouds moving in with thunderstorms on the way, chief meteorologist, jeff ranieri, tracking when and where. We are live in the bay area. The news at 6 00 starts right now. Good evening. Im raj mathai. And im jessica agguire. We begin with alameda District Attorney, pamela price, under fire again facing allegations of nepotism after the d. A. S office hired her boyfriend as an employee. Nbc bay areas velena jones has more. Reporter social media video shows a snapshot of the relationship between antoine boyd and alameda County District attorney employee and his boss d. A. Pamela process. You do not hire your lover and you become the boss of your lover. You just dont do that. Reporter public records show he has worked on her team since his campaign her campaign but joined the office as a Program Specialist in january. The Bay Area News Group reports he