nbc bay area news. san jose sheriff deputies today ended a standoff with a woman. it all happened before noon at bel air avenue near the 880 on ramp. the sheriff department says the woman had a gun and knife and they called in a crisis team to negotiate. the department says the negotiators reached a peaceful resolution with the woman. she was taken to the hospital for an evaluation. more so-called bombshell testimony in today's live hearing in the house january 6th committee. one of the biggest to come out. we learned the committee has notified the justice department that donald trump personally tried to contact an unnamed witness. it highlighted ties between former president trump's allies and extremist groups which led to the storming of the capitol. former member of the right wing oath keepers unit at the capitol riots testified in person and there was testimony that president donald trump ad- libbed lines in his rally speech designed to incite people in the crowd. >> donald trump is a 76-year- old man. he is not an impressionable trial. as our investigation has shown, donald trump had access to more detailed and specific information showing that the election was not actually stolen than almost any other american and he was told this over and over again. >> we'll have more on today's witnesses and evidence including a breakdown with our political analysts coming up at 5:30. we need more now. that is the demand coming from san francisco officials today regarding the monkeypox vaccine. demand for vaccinations has skyrocketed, but supply is not there. we're joined live from zuckerberg general in san francisco. pete, people lining up for hours to try and get this monkeypox vaccine. >> reporter: that's right. people have been here for hours. you can see the long lines here. all of them looking to get a dose of the monkeypox vaccine. as many folks are scrambling to get the vaccine, you have san francisco leaders blasting the federal government and their lack of supply. >> pretty off is what i am hearing from a lot of folks. >> reporter: it is fair to say that san francisco supervisor is fed up with the federal response to the growing monkeypox outbreak. today, he stood on the steps of san francisco's city hall alongside fellow leaders in the lgbtq community demanding that feds increase the number of doses they are sending our way. supervisor mandelman says lgbtq leaders who are around during the start of the aids epidemic of the 1980s say the federal response is starting to feel like deja vu. >> they are describing a very similar feelings of knowing that there is a public health problem. san francisco trying to address it, activists screaming about it and getting this sort of kind of nonresponse out of the federal government. >> reporter: the response so far has been just under 3,000 vaccine doses for the city. the supervisor introduced a resolution to the board of supervisors today calling on the federal government to supply an additional 35,000 doses immediately. >> we have a crisis now and we can cut this off. we should be able to stop this from becoming an epidemic. >> reporter: the number of reported monkeypox cases in the city currently stands at 60. statewide 150 cases. health officials with the city say that doesn't tell the full story. >> we know that that is an under count because it has about challenging to get testing and people may not recognize their symptoms. we are working on the presumption that many more people will need to get vaccines. >> reporter: take you back down here live to san francisco in front of san francisco general. this long line for the drop-in site for the monkeypox vaccine. health officials say if you have been exposed to monkeypox, to get the vaccine as soon as possible. they say you have up to 14 days. of course, it's better to get the vaccine sooner than later. in san francisco, nbc bay area news. >> thank you, pete. from monkeypox to covid, we are still in a summer surge fueled by that new highly contagious variant ba.5. look at this. the positivity rate in california now 16.1%. that's an increase of nearly 521,000 now positive tests reported from the previous day. a week ago, the state's positivity rate was at 15.7%. you can see it right there. we continue to inch up into high rates. now, we're in a position right now that almost one in every five californians actually has covid. in the early days of covid, if you had it, you were considered to be immune from reinfection for about 12 weeks. remember, you had three months. now doctors in australia are saying that the immune period where you probably won't get it is more like four weeks so we're talking 28 days. that's because the covid virus has changed and this new dominant variant ba.5 spreads faster and no longer carries the same type of natural immunity. that covid strain that we are talking about ba.5 which is the dominant strain in the u.s. is surging as well. doctors are calling it tricky because it avoids detection often testing as negative and then it reinfects you really easily. about 100,000 cases have been reported each day in recent weeks. let's take you to new york where health officials say you have to be really careful with this variant. >> people are not testing and even people with symptoms that test may test negative on the first test, so they should retest. it is not more severe than previous variants, but it is so much more transmissible and reinfects. it is very good at reinfecting. >> that's why new york city officials are pushing for more children to get the vaccine and they are telling people go ahead, wear a mask indoors if you can't be socially distant. taking back the tenderloin less than a week in office, san francisco as new d.a. is claiming to clean up one of the toughest places in the city. she wants to get drugs off the street and in her words hold criminals accountable. >> the open air drug markets are one of my top priorities. >> reporter: that's the promise from san francisco's newly sworn in district attorney saying drug crimes have gone without much accountability in recent years. >> i am aware of the data that only three offenders were required to plead to drug sales charges in the year 2021. >> reporter: jenkins is vowing to create pathways to recoveries to hold dealers accountable and review current plea offers presented by her nashville predecessor boudin made. >> i do see problems there. i want to know what types of offers are on the table on the cases currently in our office so we can craft a policy that promotes more accountability. >> reporter: the crackdown on the city's drug problems comes just weeks after they declared a state of emergency in the tenderloin vowing to clean up streets and crackdown on crime. some question whether jenkins' promises will make an impact. dale seymour has called the tenderloin his home for a decade. >> i am concerned this is another political move that will keep us at ground zero. >> reporter: he wants to see more medical services, recovery problems and work support development instead of relying on arrest and he and others worry that it will lead to prison for people who will be better off in treatment. >> no wants to be on drugs. it's a disease. it's an addiction. you can't get off this poison. >> reporter: san francisco recovery believes jenkins' efforts could turn things around. >> first step to solving many of the problems in san francisco is to break up the organizing drug dealing. send a message. >> reporter: a promise those who live in the tenderloin hope is fulfilled. >> it looks the same as in 2001. we'll see. >> reporter: nbc bay area news. slowly but surely, firefighters are making progress against a fire threatening hundreds of giant sequoias in yosemite national park. it grew 500 acres overnight burning a total of 230 acres. so far, it is contained 22%. under the sequoias that line the valley floor and mariposa grove are still standing. >> there's more than 500 mature sequoia trees in here. there are many others of smaller sizes. of the big ones, there's more than 500. we have three groves. this is the largest one by far and the oldest one. >> there are some 600 firefighters on-site there. in santa clara kaiser emergency department, it is back open after a scary standoff early this morning forced them to go into lockdown. santa clara police were called to the hospital just before 5:00 this morning for reports of a suicidal patient with a handgun and was telling hospital staff that this person, he wanted to commit suicide by cop. officers arrived and locked down the e. r. the person surrendered and the e. r. was reopened shortly after 7:00 this morning. police say a replica gun was recovered and the patient is receiving mental health services. they are urging those who may be experiencing a mental health emergency to call the national suicide prevention hotline or 911. did bad blood lead to a deadly shooting at a mobile home park? it happened around 6:40 last night at the river glen community in san jose. a man was found shot to death. this morning, police arrested bert mcelhaney. a neighbor says he was a longtime maintenance man who lived across the street from the victim. >> i heard they didn't like each other. i'm not sure the particulars of why exactly, but bert was a maintenance man around here for many years. >> police are still investigating so an official motive has not been released. the victim hasn't been identified. this is san jose's 20th homicide of the year. some relief at the pump. gas prices keep creeping down. up next, the counties in the bay area where the average price is now actually under $6 a gallon. he spent decades trying to improve health care in the south bay, but now it is his own health that he has to worry about, but it is not stopping his life's mission. the story that will make you bay area proud. i'm chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. cooler today from that san cooler today from that san francisco fog which is my tribe has lived on this land for 12,000 years. we call it oleyumi. you call it california. our land, our culture, our people once expansive, now whittled down to a small community. only one proposition supports california tribes like ours. while providing hundreds of millions in yearly funding to finally address homelessness in california. vote yes on 27. tax online sports betting and protect tribal sovereignty and help californians that are hurting the most. you saw this one coming. a legal battle brewing between twitter and elon musk. twitter suing musk to force him to commit to his bid to purchase the company. he said he would originally pay $44 billion. in the lawsuit filed today, twitter accused musk of breaching that purchase agreement and that twitter says caused its stock to tank. musk has agreed to buy the company for $54.20 a share back in april. twitter's share now has sunk to $34.06 if you've gotten gas recently, you may have noticed prices at the pump are actually a little lower. gas prices at a san jose station today were under $6 a gallon. according to aaa, the national average is $4.65. let's take a closer look at california. we are obviously always higher. the average price across the state today $6.05. in the bay area, two counties are tied for the lowest price. that's marin and solano counties at $5.99. the bay area county with the highest gas prices is napa at $6.25 a gallon. this will blow your mind. a new view of the cosmos thanks to nasa's new webb telescope. images unveiled today show in vivid detail light that has traveled billions of years to reach earth. wrap your mind around that. scientists say they are going to look at these photos, study the photos to learn more how the galaxies interact with each other. we're going to talk to a bay area company that built the first of its kind camera that captured those breathtaking images. stroke is the fifth leading cause of death in this country. one in five for men. one in six for women. >> even with those high odds, it's the last thing many people think will ever happen to them. just like the person you are about to meet in tonight's bay area proud, we are introduced to a man looking to turn something bad into something helpful for others. >> reporter: chris wilder is not a household name in the south bay, but at the highest levels of business, government and public service, they know who he is. for decades, he raised millions of dollars to improve health care in the south bay and though it is now his health he has to focus on, it doesn't mean he isn't still thinking of ways to help others. any story about a heroic journey requires one key element. a hero obviously, but this story it turns out has two of them. yes, there is chris wilder working tirelessly to come back from a devastating stroke, but that wouldn't even be a possibility were it not for his wife, kate. it was kate one night in march last year who recognized that chris was having that stroke. >> chris had just got up to get something to drink and had walked across the living room to sit down next to me on the couch, and he looked at me and the right side of his face slumped and i thought, oh, my god, he's having a stroke. >> reporter: kate called 911 less than a minute later. a move that very well saved her husband's life. even still, quite a bit of damage had been done. a portion of chris' brain had to be removed and kate says doctors warned her he would likely not just lose the ability to walk, but to even communicate which was something you should know that chris wilder was a bit of a master of. >> we've got one of the greatest community health providers. >> reporter: as executive director of the valley medical center foundation for close to 20 years, he talked to movers and shakers of silicone valley into donating tens of million dollars to help hospital patients and he can the communicated through music too even forming a band with his co- workers who paid for free when charity needed them. all of that is gone at least for now. >> woke up in the hospital on some day and just knew that something bad had happened to me and i didn't know what it was, but once i became aware of what it was, i realized, oh, well, i guess i'm not playing golf for awhile, i guess i'm not playing music for awhile. >> reporter: chris hasn't given up on those things. 16 months later, he works tirelessly at his rehabilitation and is still seeing progress and chris hasn't given up on helping others either. when he was able to play with just one hand, he performed to cheer up fellow stroke patients and chris just joined the board of the stroke awareness foundation dedicated to saving the lives and improving the outcomes of stroke victims just like him. >> the first thing i want people to know is that you really need to know the signs of a stroke. >> reporter: let's help chris do that right now. we have some of the signs of a stroke. a sudden loss of balance. a face that's drooping on one side. is vision blurry or is one arm or leg weak and finally is the speech slurred or strange? if any of those things are the case, time to call 911 immediately. i've posted more information on what to look out for on my facebook page. that's garvin thomas nbc bay area. thank you. >> thank you very much, garvin. there is a critical window when you have a stroke that you have to get help immediately. there is a window in which they can help reverse some of the signs of that. it is really, really important that you don't say it's nothing which is what most people do and then you guest past that important window. >> really good. >> good reminders. let's talk about our weather. i had a hard time going to bed. it was still pretty warm until late last night. it seems like things are cooling off. >> it got a lot better today. a lot easier for folks to deal with it especially if you don't have air conditioning. we'll bring you into that microclimate forecast tonight and i wanted to start off with that headline. the cooling and you could see on our 24-hour temperature change, that also is showing the fog at the coastline how much we are down. there is the live view in san francisco. it is coming in so strong that if you are headed there tonight, we might have some drizzle you'll need to watch out for. look at this. we're down nine degrees cooler in santa rosa. 14 in liver livermore. concord six more. super noticeable. we had those upper 90s yesterday. the breeze out of the west at 12 eventually will drop us quickly here. of the at 8:00 p.m. and we are keeping with those 60s as we head into later tonight. i do anticipate those clouds to also move way inland as we move into the overnight hours because of the system just offshore. this right here will be responsible for keeping that fog and that cooler trend in place as we head through tomorrow's forecast. circulation around this just really helping to keep that ocean flow right up against the coastline. as we take you into tomorrow morning's forecast, it is another commute where you probably aren't going to need those sunglasses too much as you can see the widespread clouds, chance of spotty drizzle. even by 10:00 in the morning, we're still holding on to some of that there through the north bay, the bay and over towards san francisco and we get in on that sunshine as we hit tomorrow afternoon. morning temperatures will be in the 50s to 60s to starting. got you at 61 in the peninsula. tri-valley 69. let's take it to san francisco 56 and the north bay 57. daytime highs tomorrow cool off another few degrees. i think if you like today, you are definitely going to love tomorrow. you can see it here in san jose. we are looking at 80 degrees. right to gilroy 83. instead of though upper 90s in the east bay, we're at 84 in concord, 82 in danville, 74 in hayward. peninsula 72 in san mateo, san francisco 67 in the mission and through the north bay, big differences again where you get away from the ocean breeze we're still up at 92 in clearlake, but down towards mill valley 69. my seven-day forecast shows in san francisco looking out for the king tides into friday morning. those are the highest of high tides that could produce coastal flooding. daytime highs here in the 60s through san francisco. for the inland valleys, we are holding with this steady trend of 80s over the next seven days. right now 89 on saturday will be the warmest. we could see isolated low 90s by saturday arrests forecast. we'll keep an eye on that. i think we have a nice couple of days heading our way. >> no triple digits. love it. thanks, jeff. with families still in need of baby formula, there are as you may have already surmised, we are still in the middle of a drought. today the bay area's largest water agencies met to discuss that issue. i want to show you a new map from the drought monitor saying the entire region is in severe drought condition. in the south bay, valley water customers used 3% less water from 2021 to 2022, but the goal was to cut use by 15%. in san francisco, water demand has dropped since 2019 which is good, but they are hoping it goes lower to 2015 levels. moving you forward now on the national baby formula shortage. abbott is producing formula at its plant and we are getting a closer look at how the shortage is impacting bay area low income families. statewide half of all eligible families are enrolled with the women infants and children program also known as wic. the special supplemental nutrition program. 80% of solely formula fed to supplement breast feeding. ceo spoke with chris sanchez about what steps she thinks the state should go to moving forward. >> you don't want to go to multiple stores only to find one brand that isn't a brand that their wic allows. maximum flexibility is what we are hoping for from regulators to allow families to be able to grab that formula when they happen to see it. >> jennifer talked about so much more including tips for all mothers dealing with this shortagement . you can watch the full interview by downloading our nbc bay area streaming app and by clicking on the must see play list. >> so stressful for parents. a 5-year-old boy from portland, oregon, with a rare heart condition is thriving today all thanks to a pediatric cardiologist from the other side of the country. >> maverick waller was born with a rare heart condition called swiss cheese heart. he had a dozen holes between the walls of his heart some as larges a dime. in november, a new york doctor performed a surgery to close the holes and gave maverick's mom and dad the best news of all that their little boy would never need surgery again. >> he is so cute. >> he is so cute. just seems like active again and back to normal. thank you so much for that doctor's help. you can also watch us live on roku, amazon fire and apple tv. >> have you seen the photos? the world is marveling at the new images by the webb telescope and we'll take a look at the pictures from the camera from scientists in the ba
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