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KNTV NBC Bay Area News At 6 November 21, 2015

And that is someone doesnt want in their neighborhood. He is not welcome in the city. They are doing everything to force smith out of the city. They say motel six evicted him on wednesday after learning he was there. They claim the Security Team monitoring smith used their own names to register him. Frazier smith is on motel sixs do not rent to list nationwide. So if they had told him he was there, they would not have rented him a room. Police say smith who are has a long history of sexual salts, has been sleeping in a car the past two nights. Because not a single motel will rent to him. Smiths attorney said that is unfair. And wrong. Its incredibly dangerous for him. Who wants people sleeping in their cars. The community doesnt deserve that. And he doesnt deserve it. Reporter attorney jim macinty said smith is concerned about the uproar his presence is causing but is trying to stay positive. He said the 51yearold is being monitored 24 7 by gps and by somebody with him at all times. And he wants to be a good neighbor. I think he would be a better neighbor than some that ive got. He is remarkably calm and focused in the face of all of this. It is not rattling him. He is determined to succeed. Reporter frazier smiths attorney insists that he is not a danger. He said that he wants to be a productive citizen and just fit back into society. Now tonight Vallejo Police tell us they have learned the folks monitoring smith are considering moving him to another city in solano county. Reporting live in vallejo, im jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. Thank you, jodi. He is not the only convicted sex offender to face backlash. In 2004, brian deverys became the first person to be released from the predator rehabilitation program. He ended up living in a trailer on the grounds of a state prison. Months later, kerry verse was driven out of several bay area cities after months of controversy, he finally settled into a place in bay point. Right now there are 550 people in the states sexually violent predator program. Most of them are in a hospital in the Central Valley in the col inga area. And 32 have been released with supervision, 12 are living in communities around the state. A security scare on board a United Airlines flight ats fo and chris chicagoey was evacuated. This is minutes before he boarded the flight before scheduled to fly to boston but the flight was far more eventful than expected. Robert handa has the details from sfo. Reporter with the holiday travel, sfo is getting busier as the evening goes on but airport Officials Say this mornings incident caused commotion but not a major dress rupgs. This morning the governor boarded flight, but the 757 was brought back to the terminal. The governor, as you could tell from the photo, taken by another traveller, had to deboard with other passengers after what United Airlines described as a disruptive customer on board. It was more commotion on the exit side of where people were coming out of the airport and everything. But nobody was seemingly panicked. I didnt know until just a few minutes ago what had really happened zblrjs now according to airport officials and San Francisco police, a passenger was taking cell phone pictures of the flight crew e. Was asked to delete the pictures. He complied but another passenger said he saw other pictures on the phone, including one of a cell phone with wires sticking out. Police say the man was removed. Passengers were then rescreened and reboarded the flight and the flight ultimately departed sfo. Someone on social media the governor was threatened, chicagoeys office said at no time did he pose a verbal threat to the governor. There was a high threat with the governor being on the plane but i hope that would not be the only reason. I think extra precautions were taken. I would hope it would be anybody, whether it is the governor or not. The socalled suspicious passenger had no criminal background and put on another plane to boston. Nbc news. And tonight a new terror attack and one of the victims has family here in the bay area. More than 20 people have been killed in a luxury hotel in mali. Suspected islamic extremists armed with guns and grenades stormed the Radisson Blu Hotel in the mali capital city. It happen this is morning. The attackers held more than 100 people hostage until Security Teams launched a counter attack and ended the siege. Some pictures from inside of the hotel. A Al Qaeda Terror Group is claiming responsibility for the attack. There is one american victim. New jersey residence anita debtar who was a mother and Public Health expert. Her brother lives here in San Francisco. He released this statement to us just about 20 minutes ago. While we are angry and saddened that she has been killed, we know that she would have wanted to promote education and health care to prevent violence and poverty at home and broad, not intolerance. In 10 minutes from now, well show you how paris is united tonight. And plus bay area pushback to the air strikes in syria. A frightening crime at uc berkeley. Tonight Campus Police are investigating a kidnapping and Sexual Assault. Investigators say a woman taken from campus last night and released by her captors this morning. We have more from michelle roberts. Shes live at cal berkeley with what students are being told and not being told about the crime. Michelle . Reporter janelle, tonight investigators are not saying much about what happened here. They are working this case tonight. They do say that a woman was walking in the middle of campus at about 6 00 last night when she was abducted and taken to another location where she was Sexual Assaulted. Investigators say they are not giving any details about her condition today. And this afternoon i spoke with several students who are very shaken up by the news of a new attack on campus. I mean, that makes me kind of scared to go to the library late at night. But i mean, what can you do. This is our campus, i want to utilize the resources, but that is sad. I hope she is okay. I had a night class yesterday so that could have been me and i feel like, the police or the Campus Police i hope they do something. Because im scared. Im scared now. Campus police are not releasing a suspect description or description of the vehicle. Investigators say a crime alert was sent out to student this is afternoon and reminding students to utilize the Campus Escort Service and walk in groups if they are worried about being on campus, especially at night. This is the seventh reported Sexual Assault on cal Berkeley Campus so far this year. Michelle roberts, nbc news. New details in a south bay teacher convicted of being a pedophile. A victim is seeking damages. Former teacher john lloyd is serving 40 years in prison. He is pled guilty to molesting fifth grade girls in morgan hill. This week the family of a victim filed a legal complaint targeting lloyd, the School District and up to 50 unnamed employees. The request for damned is the damaged is the first step in filing a lawsuit claiming district knew or should have known he was a threat. Two more victims are in the process of filing complaints. So who is at fault . Is it the driver, the bus or the barriers there at union square. One week after the wild bus crash, there are still questions. But tonight San Francisco mayor ed lee is demanding changes. But will it prevent a crash like this from happening again. Chuck cope law is in San Francisco. And what are the spes isks from the mayor today . It is very simple,rath. He is calling for immediate inspections of all city tour buses and keeping up that pace, which immediately brings to mind lots of questions from people who have to carry out these inspections with what people and with what budget. Reporter a source at californias Highway Patrol said inspecting each and every bus would raise an immediate concern over expense. The San Francisco mayor ed lee says Public Safety should not be compromised. Given the number of buses that we have in our streets operating in those capacity, that not 100 of those are not inspected, that is not good enough. The california Highway Patrol said it has no record that the speeding bus that crashed into a construction site had ever been inspected as part of the city site seeing fleet of 28 double deck buses. What is more, on the last inspection, september 25th, inspectors examined only nine of the companys buses. About a third of the fleet. Found no problems, and signed off on the rest. We are demanding the cpuc order an entire inspection of every single tour bus. 100 . Reporter the mayor offered no additional deals about time and money the inspections may require but the carnage caught by Security Camera and some injured people, shows how much damage a runaway bus could cause. But accident investigators could not explain what triggered it. Not yet. We have gotten the complete cooperation. We have the bus. I want to thank the commercial vehicle experts helping us with our investigation with our commercial vehicle inspection unit. They are actively taking the bus apart. Reporter the bus drivers attorney said water buries if they were full, were empty. The driver said the brakes and Everything Else failed. But state senator jerry hill said he supports a more rigorous inspection process for tour buses. Operators would likely pay more in fees for the inspections. He said some pay as little as 15 per bus currently. Live in San Francisco, im chuck, nbc bay area news. Here is a new one, thieves not just targeting your packages on front poch porch. Now stealing them from your post box. What is being done about it. Any blow for the crab season. A new move that could make the seafood even harder to find. And good evening. Im meteorologist jeff ran your eye. And kickingoff our nbc holiday food drive. Coming up, well talk with these ladies from the Junior League and how they are helping to support us and your full Weather Forecast. Nice wave, ladies. Pretty good. Allowing 12 points per game since his return. Tonight the people there christians and muslims are exactly one week ago paris was being attacked. Tonight the people there, christians and muslims and everyone else, are trying to unite. They gathered a a square that has turned into a memorial site for the 130 victims who were killed. After heavy rain throughout the day, they relit the candles, as you could see. Some people even danced. Others held hands in silence. At concert hall where 89 people were massacred, this man brought out his piano and played through the night. A small sign on his piano reads, not afraid. More than 600 islamic militants have been killed in the recent wave of air strikes in syria. According to russia. One of the countries taking part in the war on isis. Russian officials released this video showing 16 missiles launched from three different ships. They say they hit more than 700 targets in syria in the past three days. Military crews inscribed, for paris, in solidarity for the victims of the attack. Back here in San Francisco, protesters gathered to demand an air to the airstrikes. They gathered at San Francisco city hall. They believe at tack only creates more terrorists. Just this week the u. S. And other allies vowed to intensify airstrikes against isis in syria and iraq. Well for months weve been reporting about packages being stolen from front porches. On the peninsula, things have gone a step further. Thieves are breaking into post offices to commit this crime. And in a story only on nbc bay area, scott budman has the details from burlingame. Normally this time of the year, packages leave the post office in trucks, heading to your house. But sunday night someone broke into the burlingame postal an ex on rollins road and played grinch. They broke up some parcels, took some contents. Reporter and now, while investigators try to track down who committed the federal crime, letters are going out to some local residents to tell them their gifts will be delayed. The post Office Contacts customers to let them know if something happened if mail was broken up or broken into. They are not sure how much was taken but hope the community could help solve the crime. We have a standing 10,000 reward leading to the arrest and conviction. That was scott budman reports. It is a crime of opportunity here. Tis is the season. P it is a federal crime with up to five years in prison if you are caught. Well, rough day in walnut creek. A crash disrupted traffic for the afternoon. This happened on oak grove road south of ignacio valley road. Two women in their 60 rs in Critical Condition after struck while crossing the street this morning. Investigators say they were in the crosswalk. The driver said she didnt see the women crossing and that driver is cooperating with the investigation. A new barrier is standing between crab lovers and their thank staple. Oregon and washington are now joining california in delaying their season. All this because of high levels of a naturally occurring toxin that could be deadly to humans if ingested. The season was supposed to start a week from tuesday. It is now put off indefinitely. California season was supposed to start last week but also delayed. The problem, an al gee bloom brought on by ocean water that are warmer leading to the dangerous increase in toxins in crab along our western coastline. The Holiday Season is right hereupon us. And it is a big weekend for us here. We need everyones support to help with our food drive. And jeff is kicking it off. At the santa clara safeway at the river mark plaza. He joins us live. Hey, guys. Can you hear that sound. We can. It is blueing those registers blowing up with donations we kick off the annual nbc bay area holiday food drive. Our grohl is 20,000 our goal is 20,000 donations as bay area employees will be out at over 150 safeway stores. Joining us tonight, huge contributors to reach our donation goals that, the Junior League of san jose. And with us right now the president , juliette davis. Thank you for coming out. And why is it important to be a part of what we do at safe way . We have an organization of 700 well. We give back to the community. The local community. Santa clara county, to the tune of 27,000 volunteer hours annually. Annually. And this is a big part of it. And we are happy to have you out here. And you will explain to everybody the big difference this year as opposed to the last year and how you donate. Yes. This year were going to be handing out fliers. There are 70 of us at six different safeway locations. We are handing out fliers. All you need to do, hand these to the cashier and they will scan it in and that adds 10 to your grocery bill and 10 feeds a family in need for thank. Thank you. Give yourself a hand. We appreciate your hard work. Lets look at the Weather Forecast through this weekend. And while we do want the rainfall with the drought, dry weather is going to help us get in more donations. So as we head throughout saturday, check it out. Up to 75 in the north bay. San francisco, 67. And the trivalley with low 70s. Weekend forecast staying clear. Any kind of rainfall will be north this saturday and also on sunday. As we get a look at the extended forecast. There is not much hope next week of any kind of heavy rainfall. I know it looked like that earlier in the week. Right now what were looking at is maybe an isolated shower on tuesday. Scattered rain chance on wednesday. And for thanksgiving, a dry day and cold. We hope your turkey is not but the weather will be. And nbc bay area and safeway food drive happening now through christmas. But saturday is the day to come out and help us reach our 20,000 donation goal at the bay area safeways. It helps seven different food banks in the bay area. And we heard from the experts, everybody is in need. How are you doing down here . Are you doing good . Yeah. Because i im good. Youre good. And well thank you for coming out and helping us. We really appreciate it. Raj and jess, people of all ages helping us this weekend. Could we bring that little girl with us to every safeway tomorrow. So cute. Yes. Jeff, thank you. And it is very easy ant important for us. Just 10. Come out to your local safeways tomorrow. She said she is on the way. Great. Well ask her mom too. Thanks, jeff. Well still to come at 6 00, teslas largest recall ever. Coming up, the single report about the behind. And plus what to do if your car is affected. And more bad news for chipotle. A ecoli outbreak here in california. Well tell you where and what is being done about it. A possible seat belt defect has prompted its largestever tesla is on damage control. A possible seat belt defect has prompted the largest ever recall. The company is recalling the entire fleet of model s. Sedans. That is some 90,000 cars worldwide. It is all because of a single report of a car in europe that did not have a seat belt properly connected. Tesla owners should schedule a visit to a Service Center for an inspection. A Worldwide Hotel chain with several properties in the bay area now said a credit card breach may have exposed personal information of customers to thieves. Starwood hotels said the palace hotel and the westin saint francis, both in San Francisco, were among the dozens of properties targeted since last year. Names, credit card numbers, security codes and expiration dates could have been exposed. They are reaching out to guests who have may have been affected. Might want to rethink your next meal at chipotle. The ecoli outbreak is here in california. Sds is tracking new cases in california. Both of them in t

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