Asistio. Welcome to nbc bay area news at 4 30. Our ian cull is looking into how exactly your pg and e bill will look different. Hes going to be joining us in just a little bit. Were also tracking other stories on this thursday, including the bidens coming to the bay area in separate visits. We are tracking the first ladys landing at sfo. That could happen any minute from now. And when President Biden will touch down in Silicon Valley, also, 25,000 pills of fentanyl found under a crib. The san jose parents, now under arrest and whos now caring for their one year old baby and her Home Insurance bill, doubled in an instant. Its an ongoing problem across california right now. Weve talked about this. Our Damian Trujillo talks to the frustrated homeowner and an economist about the state of our insurance bills. But lets go ahead and start with that decision to change the way we pay our electric bill. This is going to impact all of us, probably vote by state regulators today. Could bring those bills down a bit for some. But heres the catch. Its likely to make bills rise for others. Nbc bay areas ian cull has been following this closely all day for us, so ian can you just help us understand what exactly is changing here . Yeah. So theres good and bad news here basically. So first off youre going to have a 24 a month flat rate added to your bill starting in late 2025. That money used to be collected through usage rates and could vary depending on how many kilowatt hours you use, but this change updates californias power bills to allow align with how the rest of the country does it. As a result, youll get charged 5 to 0. 07 less per kilowatt hour. So that might be good for some, but bad for others. Customers we talk with fear. Even a small change wont be enough to make a real difference. The electricity is just outrageous. Its hard to even pay a bill normally a bill was 6070 bucks. Now its almost 200 and its a small house. A lot of people are struggling. Ian, the question a lot of people want to know right now who is going to be paying more and whos going to be paying less. Yeah and according to the utility reform network, it depends on how much power you use. So the executive director there, mark tony, says people who could pay more are those using solar and they dont have much of a power bill. They might also have to pay that full 24. And people along the coast who dont really use air conditioning, they wont see as much of a relief from lower rates. But he believes still that those lower rates will offset, and theyll only see an increase of about 3 to 5 a month. But those who could have lower bills include people in hotter parts of the state like the trivalley, the south bay and the central valley. Because it will be cheaper to run the ac, low income households and electric Vehicle Owners who charge at home should also see a small drop. The proposals goal is to make utility bills more equitable and make it cheaper to go electric. Tony says. Its a good start. Theres a lot of work to be done to stop future rate increases, to push for policies that actually provide rate relief. The more we can do to reduce rates before before this takes effect, the better customers are going to feel. Now, critics argue the new flat fee effectively punishes people for conserving power while subsidizing people who use more. That change wont go into effect until late 2025. Well have more on this change coming up at 530. All right. Well see you at 530. Ian. Thank you. I want to go ahead and take you to breaking news now because within the past ten minutes, a name change for the oakland airport. Weve been following this now for weeks. Oakland port commissioners made it official at their Public Meeting just now. So youll remember last month, oakland officials voted in favor of changing the name of Oakland International airport to the San Francisco bay. Oakland international airport. This is despite San Francisco threatening a lawsuit over what it says is a trademark violation. The airports three letter code, o. R. K, will remain the same. The bidens are coming to the bay area today. First lady is arriving first. Any moment now, so lets go ahead and take a live look at sfo, where we are awaiting the landing of jill biden. Shes flying in from portland, oregon, where she attended a political finance event earlier this afternoon. And this is video from her landing in portland today. Tonight in the bay area, first lady will be speaking at another political finance event in marin county. Then its wheels up once again. Shell be flying into burbank tomorrow morning for another event in los angeles before taking off to phoenix. Meantime, President Biden is set to touch down in the south bay tonight. He took off after hosting wnba champions the las vegas aces at the white house earlier today. He is set to land at Moffett Field in Mountain View at around 8 00 tonight. President doesnt have any events scheduled tonight, but tomorrow he is attending two separate fundraisers. We do know one of them is going to be happening in San Francisco, hosted by billionaire venture capitalist vinod khosla. The other is in palo alto, which is hosted by Silicon Valley execs Marissa Mayer and joseph ansanelli. After that, hes going to be taking off to seattle for more Campaign Events there. They are busy, and we, of course, will be following both the president and first ladys arrivals with live coverage in all of our newscasts tonight. And we want to go ahead and take you back to sfo now, where we are taking a live look at the first lady, jill biden, just touching down there at sfo. She has officially arrived in our area, in the bay area as i just mentioned, she just came from portland, oregon, and this is just a busy time for the first lady and the president as they are in the middle of their Campaign Events. And this is going to be a quick stop for her. As i mentioned, shes going to be arriving here for a campaign event, and then shes going to be taking off pretty soon. So we, of course, as i mentioned, are going to be staying on top of this for you. Again, joe biden just landing in the bay area, san jose couple now facing multiple charges after investigators say they found huge amounts of drugs being stored within feet of their baby. County Drug Task Force swarmed the home at an apartment complex on Rocky Mountain drive. This happened on tuesday. Thats where the das office says all the largest seizure of fentanyl in santa claras county. Santa clara countys history 25,000 pills as well as cocaine, marijuana, cash and a loaded firearm. 27 year old Octavian Moreno and 23 year old crystal delgado were charged with three counts of possessing narcotics for sale, as well as a felony count of child endangerment. Just one of those pills has the power to take a life and the defendants in this case willfully caused an endangered their child by dealing such large quantities of drugs out of their apartment. And our office intends to hold them accountable. A judge set bail at 200,000 for delgado, 250,000 for moreno. Couple is due back in court july 13th to enter a plea. The one year old is now living with relatives. Santa clara county has a fleet of new ambulances. Take a look. 12 new ambulances are going to help bring patients to three hospitals and 16 clinics in the Santa Clara Valley health care system. They include a nicu and a life support ambulance, which will be used to treat critically injured patients. Health leaders say that the new ambulances will help improve response times and save lives. This will benefit patients with Urgent Medical conditions such as stroke, heart attacks and complicated fractures due to falls, trauma, vehicular accidents. These patients will no longer have to wait for transport, which might have taken several hours or sometimes even days. By the way, the ambulances were partially paid for by donations. Lets go out and take a look now at our weather. I am with vianey arana, our meteorologist vna arana. Now as we take a beautiful look outside, its just been fantastic. It really has. I mean, from the coast bay all the way to inland areas, we felt a bit of summer warmth right the past two days. And look at this. This is a live look in san jose. So lets get to how those temperatures are doing as far as the daytime highs go, heres what we currently stand right now weve got 80s on the map in san jose. Its about 85 degrees. Youll notice in dublin 85 fremont also in those 80 San Francisco. Right now at about 71, santa rosa inching closer towards that 90 degree mark. Now these are just the current temperatures. Believe it or not, were expected to get even warmer as we head in closer to your friday forecast. Ill get to that in a second. Weve got our satellite radar right now. If you notice weve got clear conditions. Weve got that ridge of High Pressure. Of course, its a drier air, so that dome, that heat is kind of keeping all of that gunk on the ground. And we saw some wind the past couple of days. So if you hear me a little bit muffled, its from those allergies youre not imagining things. Weve got high pine and oak moderate to high when it comes to the grasses. And unfortunately that allergy forecast does remain pretty high heading into friday and even into the weekend, because were still going to see that High Pressure lingering around at least less wind in the upcoming days, which should help ease up just a bit. Now for tomorrow. Look at this. Weve got some 90s in areas like concord and fairfield, san jose and los gatos. Were talking 88 and even around San Francisco. Now. This is for your friday. Of course, its mothers day weekend, so if youre curious to see what we can expect into saturday and sunday, i do want to give you a sneak peek. So notice things stay dry and the rain does stay away. But what are we going to do when it comes to the temperatures . If youre celebrating mom outside, i definitely think some planning for the heat will be absolutely necessary, but make sure to join us once again at 5 00. Chief meteorologist jeff ranieri will have more details on what to expect this weekend. Coming up, audrey, its a big weekend for all the mamas. All right vanna, thank you. Well see you in a little bit. All right. Now to the ongoing Home Insurance crisis in california. Weve been telling you for months now that some Insurance Companies say its simply not worth it. They paused or stopped writing new policies in the state because of growing risks and costs. And now homeowners are feeling the pain. So lets go to bring in our damian Damian Trujillo. Now, damian, you spoke with one homeowner who is not happy about the changes. This is obviously impacting her. Whats she telling you . Yeah. Well, audrey, pamela lives in willow glen. She has a second home in amador county, and she used to pay 9,000 a year in her homeowners insurance. And then she got a bill recently. It doubled she to a whopping 19,000 a year. So she in her words, she was flabbergasted. The fact that she got this high of an increase. She called the Company Farmers insurance and they told her. She says that its because of the inflation in california. And so she didnt understand how that could be. She called triple a, which is a policy she has for her other home in willow glen and her automobiles. That policy premium then dropped back to 6,000. So just an inexplicable how it can double with farmers insurance. We did reach out to farmers. We havent heard back from them. See what they have to say. But its happening not just to her, but many, many people with different agencies all across the state. Sure. Shocking. Absolutely. Damian i know you got a chance to speak with an economist as well since theyre bringing up inflation. Was that economists telling you . Well, he says that the well, he was floored as well by the doubling of the premium from pamela. He says that its like the oil and gas prices, the premiums are that theyll theyll go up and down depending on supply and demand. And so he doesnt expect these rates to stay high and to remain high or to double that much in the near future, but just a matter of these Insurance Companies riding that wave and hoping things settle back down before those rates come back down. So hes optimistic, just also incredulous of the doubling of the premium, all right, damian, thank you for that preview. I know were going to be seeing your full report later on this evening, so im looking forward to that. Sure. A lot of other people are as well. Bay area company is now using ai to protect our environment. Were going to be showing you how its making recycling easier and putting cash back into your pocket. Also, californias teacher of the year is named. What makes him so special and the unique connection he actually has with our vianey arana. But before we head to break, we want to know what trending story would you like to see later on in this newscast . Have a poll up right now on my instagram. You still have a little bit more time to vote for one of these stories right here. New Office Spinoff set. New lord of the rings movie mma fighters stop pokemon thief a lot of you have already voted, so i appreciate you. A lot of you still have a little bit more time so earlier this year, Castlemont High School students visited japan, taiwan and the philippines. The group was made up of nearly 30 students and teachers who were part of the pacific bridge club. During their visit, they got to do some volunteer work along with sightseeing, trying new food. Of course, todays students visited Elmhurst United Middle School to share their experiences and encourage other students to travel abroad. Its one of the best things you could do and it opens your eyes to Different Things and you just get out of your comfort zone, basically trying new food, speaking a new language, trying to learn a new language. Socializing with different kind of people that are that are not from where you are. And i, i would totally recommend this. The students also got to try snacks that the club brought back from their trip. Snacks are the best part. All right. Turning now to a special week that honors one of the most important roles in the next generation of leaders. We are talking about teachers. This week is all about appreciating their efforts and highlighting ways we can also better support them. So lets go to bring in our meteorologist vianey arana vianey. I understand nasa is actually highlighting some Resources Available to teachers. Can you tell us more about that . You know, theyve got a great platform that includes everything from kindergarten level to higher education. And that website is full of everything from lesson plans to content, everything you can use in the classroom setting. Audrey now their library. Look at right here, this incredible image has materials not only on stem education, but also history and art, just to name a few. They also have a ton of content available in spanish. Things like hands on experience, and those lectures can certainly help enhance your lesson plans. I will absolutely make sure to include a link for this. Its a great resource for teachers and of course parents as well. Perfect. I know theyre going to be looking forward to that. So teaching obviously very challenging, but very rewarding as well. And i know you were able to chat with this years caltech teacher of the year. I was a big title, casey. He is currently an english teacher down in Southern California at valencia high school, and hes using his platform to highlight the magic in teaching. But hes also bringing to the forefront the work that is still in progress to encourage careers in teaching audrey, attracting great talent to the teaching profession which we which we must do. You know, i passionately believe that a democracy depends on a robust Public Education system and we must address some of these issues that are happening right now with the teacher shortage, with Teacher Retention and you mentioned teacher pay. It is a big issue. I mean, we need the best and the brightest. We need kids that are graduating from ucs and the cal states to say, i could be a doctor, maybe i could be a teacher. And we need those to be realistic, a realistic choice. And vienna, i understand getting to speak with him was actually a full circle moment for you. It really is. And you know, he is so humble. He mentioned, you know, he went to capitol hill, but his biggest play in this was he was excited to get back into the classroom setting. There is a passion there. Teaching is a passion. But in order for teachers to show up for our kids, we have to show up for our teachers as well, right . And he was also my english teacher back in the day in Southern California canyon high school. He used to teach at canyon high school, and my parents still live in santa clarita, so it was really nice to catch up with him and see all the incredible work that hes doing there. He was always such an intentional teacher, and he really made it available for us to have a dialog within the classroom, which i think was such an important aspect. And heres what he had to say when i asked him if i was his first ever former student to interview him for a television newscast, and this is what he said, you are the very first vienna. You are the very first. I have such fond memories of you in the classroom. Everybody whos watching. She had that same passion and that fire and senior year in high school, everyone knew vienna and you know, i didnt mess with vienna. I knew that. And seeing that passion from you and now being able to be passionate about what i do is just incredible for me. And i just wan