Gabe mccarthy it looked like somebody dropped a bomb. Chris when the 2017 inferno leveled coffee park in santa rosa, gabe mccarthys house didnt stand a chance. Gabe it burned down along with everythils chris today, in his dogwood drive house gabe then kitchen here. Chris its finally looking like a home again. Chris how long has it taken to get to this point . Gabe to this point, my guess were at probably 7 or 8 months. Chris gabes faced several hurdles and one surprise. When his Insurance Company paid his claim, gabe didnt get the check. His Mortgage Company did. Gabe theres the Purse Strings are held by my lienholder themr. Cooper. Chris mr. Cooper is not a person. Its a Mortgage Servicing company. Gabe says mr. Cooper distributed his rebuilding money progressively over about a year at various stages of construction. Thats common practice to make sure people with mortgages rebuild. But as hundreds of thousands of dollars of his insurance money sat idle, gabe wondered if it wa well, it
Landscape changes by the day. The news at 5 30 starts right now. Im audrey asistio. Im raj mathai. San franciscos downtown corridors been in the spotlight for the wrong reasons. Dozens of stores have either left or soon will be leaving due to theft and other crime. Today, ikea says it is ready to buck that trend. The swedish furnish tear company will open doors in two weeks. Heres nbc bay areas sergio quintana. Reporter the blue and yellow signs have been up. Ikea will be occupying 3 tloors at 944 Market Street. Im excitd because we dont have one around here. Reporter few are more excited than supervisor matt dorsey. The new store is in his district. The folks at ikea i think agree with me that San Francisco is poised for a come back, and theyre bullish on the future of being a Retail Outlet in San Francisco. Reporter ikea says this store will be the first of its kind in the u. S. , focusing on what it calls smallspace living. At 52,000 square feet, it will be significantly smaller tha
Hoover institute to talk about solutions. Still no speaker on capitol hill. Congressman jim jordan fails his first vote. Whats next as republicans still search for a new leader. Welcome back. Thanks for joining us, im janelle wang. Im raj mathai. Safety and the citys spike in crime. Those topic dominated the first state of the city address from mayor sheng thao. It comes amid criticism that she and others lacked the leadership to solve the citys big issues. Nbcs lena jones was there and has the details. It was about an hourlong speech that took place. There were a number of different topics the mayor discussed, but no topic got more attention that the citys rising crime rate, the mayor saying it is unacceptable and shes doubling down to make sure that residents in the city of oakland still face. Among the promises she made, in addition to vowing to double Public Safety efforts, mayor thao wants to address other topics. The neighbor used todays speech to tout her recent investments in P
Truck cross a few lanes of traffic and nearly collide with another vehicle in the process. You dont see the vehicle crash into the toll plaza but you can see the aftermath, the cab smashed, the toll booth worker, sisi hahn, a cal trans vehicle, killed. She leaves behind a daughter and a husband. Passengers and drivers at the plaza were injured. The driver of the truck was ejected but survived the crash. The ones that suffered injuries were nonlife threatening. The driver we understand suffered fairly major injuries. Unfortunately the toll booth taker was killed. Reporter here is video as it approached the toll plaza. The california Highway Patrol has identified the driver of that truck as 32yearold daniel burke of foster city. He is expected to be booked once hes released from Highland Hospital in oakland. Burke is facing charges of suspicion of dui and vehicular manslaughter. The california Highway Patrol is saying this evening, they expect that most of the lanes that had been shut do
The exclusive video of this chase and arrest. San jose Police Called a wild and scary chase, as the Surveillance Video show, you can see the suspect, running from right to left. Described as a latino male in his 20s, after the attempting kidnapping of a child. The driver roars off with the man clinging to her window. The man falls off, runs away as police swarm the area. He may have tried to kidnap two children, one at the park and another as he ran from the scene. Acting bizarre. Possibly on drugs, we dont know. Still in the middle of that investigation. At one point, he tried to grab a child at the playground over here. So, he continued acting bizarre. Police say the man attempted another carjacking, but was spotted by police, chased and captured, the victims fled, and police need them to come forward. They probably got scared. The person we are being looing for is taken into custody. We dont know if it is the same person they saw or recognized. We need to interview them. Police say