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saying about the bay area housing market. the new said 5:30 starts right now, thanks so much for joining us, i am 14. tonight we have a better idea of where they will likely be installed. they are discussing the process for picking 33 different locations for those cameras. there is an urgent need to get these cameras up asap. >> reporter: for the rivero family, speeding cars have turned a stoner their home into a dangerous outing. >> my husband had to jump in front of us to stop a car from hitting us. >> they constantly worry about their daughter says they've
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seen speeding cars jump the curb and crash in their fulton street neighborhood. >> every single day crossing the street i have to have my head on a swivel just because it is a dangerous, drivers are distracted, they are speeding. >> reporter: which is why they're happy the city plans to install 33 speed cameras throughout san francisco. including two near their home. cameras capable of catching speeders and issuing tickets automatically. using a radar gun, showed us cars collected more than 40 miles per hour today on fulton street in a 30 mile per hour zone. she says they have been working to get speed cameras in the city for 6 years. >> speak continues to be the cause of severe crashes. it is the one thing that if we get everyone to slow down we would imminently save lives. >> reporter: today the board is discussing 33 possible locations for the cameras. they include seventh and harrison, ninth and bryant and
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tent and harrison. while they say the cameras aren't a magic bullet, they are step in the right direction. >> i think that would be a deterrent because we need something that will help change driver behavior. >> the board is not expected to make a decision on the camera location today but is expected to decide on april 21st. in san francisco, marianne favro, nbc bay area news. it may be hard to believe but the fbi says the crime rates are dropping. new fbi statistics show a 30% decline in murders compared to 2022. a 6% decline in violent crimes and a 4% decline in but he cries. those numbers put them at a rate below where it was at the start of the pandemic in 2020. they fight won't release final data on 2023 crimes until october. more statistics and inside our housing market trying to make it in the bay was news to
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put potential homebuyers were waiting for after news, more houses are being put up here in the bay area. there is a twist, the hope was that more inventory would mean lower prices. so far, that is not happening. here are some answers here. a lack of inventory and now we have some inventory. >> apparently not enough. things are looking up. after years of low supply, the pent- up demand among homebuyers mean prices are still hovering around record highs. >> reporter: bay area homeowners know there's a lot of money coming just as kim potter of willow glen. >> yet, my house has appreciated quite a bit. makes him after whatever interest rates to drop arcadia back in the game. zillow says 20% more homes are for sale here now than a year ago. but -- >> it is a tiny bit more comparatively, and still nowhere near enough.
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>> bay area realtors says for every home she sees for sale, there is a line of buyers. >> and we are not just talking like two or three offers, we are seeing 10 to 20 offers on properties. the buyer demand is absolutely there. >> reporter: zillow says home prices have stayed high even as inventory grows. now above 1 1/2 million dollars on average in san jose the higher than $1.1 million in san francisco. >> we are really underscoring the need for more new construction, the need for more homes being built in the market in the san francisco market, really in order to bring down house prices and improve housing affordability. >> reporter: they still have to convince some homeowners to sell, it turns out kim potter, while tempted, is not yet ready. >> no, not at all, i love my
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neighbors and i love willow glen. >> they are up by about 2%. houses put on the market here are also selling faster the last year by about two days. it does feel like home prices are crazy expensive compared to generation ago, we have the new data. a new study found that while inflation is 10 times higher now than 60 years ago, home prices are 24 times more expensive. these numbers are crunched by clever, real estate data company. home prices increased at the same rate as inflation since 1963, the median price of a home would be about $178,000. in reality, the median price of a home in the u.s. is about $413,000 according to data. of course, homes in the bay area are much higher median rate than some cities. it is about $1 million for the median rate is some cities. to make at&t land lines because soon become a thing of the past. the california puc is holding a
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public meeting to get customer feedback on this plan. the next virtual meeting kicks off tonight in about 30 minutes. some customers of our government of their land lines but others are still attached. some companies are giving a choice. applications for grants open today. this program is entering its seventh year. they're looking for local nonprofits making an impact on their community. they received a local grant in 2022. the nonprofit works to bring healthy food to the community. it also runs the e 14 eatery. it gets kitchen space to fit entrepreneurs like diana who runs yo-yo eats.
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>> the ideal is to have whatever you want to have in the future. for me, i this is what i literally wanted to have. >> she is now opening her own brick-and-mortar store in hayward. if your nonprofit would like to apply for his own local grant, the application window runs from today through friday, april 19. for more details, check out that qr code, just scan it with your code. it will take you to our website. you can also just go to nbc bay area news/local impact grants. san francisco is exploring ways to access ev charging stations. city leaders introduced today a new pilot program right there on the steps of city hall. it aims to install public curbside ev charging stations and several neighborhoods.
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they would make ev ownership more accessible to people living in apartments and condos. that would help the city reach his goal to reach net zero emission by 2040. >> the utility rates is a killer app for electric cars. the most serious obstacle today to replacing fossil fuel cars is getting access to power for residents of multifamily housing who need to have cars. >> the city have celesta's program next year, the goal is to install 5000 public charging stations by the year 2030. a stark warning for boeing from the faa. the company has no choice but to fix his safety issues. boeing has been under scrutiny after a series of high-profile issues with his plays including the door of lieu of mid air in january. that sparked an audit which found the company culture is more of an emphasis on mass production rather than on safety. boeing was given 90 days to
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develop an improvement plan and when asked whether it will meet the deadline, the faa administrator says, i don't think they have a choice. lester holt sat down with that administrator for an exclusive interview and it is all coming up on nightly news at 6:30. now she is struggling to get her money back. get her money back. i am consumer investigator
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bills twice is not fun. >> and then they called us for help. she said her husband had to be taken to the hospital and in emlenton and died later that day. our condolences. she later paid the endless company $134. but then she realized they had an insurance company that also paid them $134. she did what most people did, she asked for her money back. several times. she says the rep kept telling her it was under review. so next she called us. we contacted amr and then send her a $134 check. we asked amr what happened and here's what it said, not very much. due to patient privacy laws we cannot discuss any details around the care provided or account information. okay, before you pay out-of- pocket for any medical bill, why not consider calling your insurance company or logging into your insurance account 1st to find out, have they processed or paid the bill already? we know it has happened at
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least once. if you have a consumer complaint, let us know. scan the qr code on the screen now. you can send us those explanation of benefits of bills and all that stuff. medical bills are at the top of our list. we get tons and tons of them. please do check them. >> yes and you have to call, they are so important. >> they are a mess. >> thank you so much. >> our climate report, 15 years it is projected to happen after three times more often. sealevel rise is exhilarating. the problem is already costing more than $1 billion of damage each year. the bay area, they have the highest risk for high tide flooding and erosion. the national administration administration is working to improve its flooding to help communities prepare. right now average blood days, our corrected predicted 30% of
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the time. weather is one factor and the other is big stretches of our u.s. coast, sometimes hundreds of miles don't have tide gauges. they are working to predict the better ways that it affects our coast. >> we will be better to provide more information for communities that don't have a tied station. >> they don't have the information to do this research themselves. they rely on noaa as a reliable source. >> click on the climate in crisis tab. today is the first official day of spring and we have a couple more days of sunshine. >> we will really go with that son to mark, it will be really nice to get that. before we do
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see that rain starting to build back into the forecast. it will be a hard turn for us after all of this blue skies, especially for today. moving into that forecast, the thing you may have been noticing really the past couple days with the sun coming out is your allergies. look at this, pine, oak and cedar on the high categories. the wind is not to gusty but it only takes a little bit of a breeze to get that rolling around. we will get you more details on how much rainfall we will get here in a little bit. i want to do some different tonight, i want to go ahead and take a look at how we are doing for the rain season and also the reservoirs and then look at the snow pack. we will talk a little bit more of what is to come for us. we are doing incredible in the rain season. we started off december and january really kind of slow going on the rainfall front. february hit and we had that rain stacking up in inches.
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santa rosa 4.60 inches. so far this season 32.87 inches and the remarkable thing about this is we have now hit what we should have for the entire rain season in santa rosa. in the more rain at this point will be a surplus for us. we are also looking at a surplus in san francisco, 2.88 inches and a deficit here in oakland and concorde anywhere from two and three behind. that will not be sending us into a drought with that deficit. good on the rainfall front, reservoirs coming in phenomenal as well. marin water 100% and east bay 84%, coyote not as high, but that is because it has been lowered due to seismic safety so it is only at 52%. we are at this point looking at like we will be at drought free
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conditions. central sierra is 99% and all of those numbers are important because it provides a third of the state's water supply. we will add onto that with the rain and also the snow coming in the forecast. what i'm seeing right now is a storm system that will basically linger from friday right until sunday's forecast but everybody will get the rain fall here. totals from a quarter to about 1 1/4 inches. i think the north bay and the coastline will be up on the higher side. because the rain will be spread out over three days, i'm not seeing a chance of flooding. the sierra snow, some areas topping a foot. the bulk of the snow coming in as we had saturday's forecast. saturday will be the most treacherous if you're headed up towards the sierras.
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let's move back to the seven- day forecast. drier weather the next two days but rain returns friday, saturday and sunday. the temperature drop as well from 71 tomorrow down to 59 on saturday. so much different than the last weekend we had. we're going to keep it dry for monday and tuesday. right now friday, saturday and sunday are looking like rainfall moving back in. spring officially arriving at 8:06 we have equal days in equal nights with the sun rays on the equator. from here on out we are looking at increased daylight. >> more light at lease. >> i think everybody is saying thank you, i'm so glad spring is here. up next the buzzes growing over the giants especially since he agreed with a free agent
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all of a sudden things are looking glorious to the san francisco giants and today it is all thinking and after last night's big news. running cy young award winner, blake snell is coming. >> they may have the biggest pitching staff of all baseball. manager bob melvin about leaning on another one of his young pitchers to help lead the team. >> whatever you say from him leadership wise and the role that he is taking on the
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correct mac i was in here before but you can see kind of who he was from the other side. and it takes a little while to get to that position. and since the minute i have been here and even before, he was like the first call and he was like whatever i can do to help. one of the things i said was look, we need the leadership role but based on who you are in this organization, how you come out and you know, what you have done here success wise, and everybody respects the heck out of him. sometimes he can be difficult for a picture to be kind of a leader on the team because they are usually kind of insulated with the pictures. that makes them even more unique in his leadership. you can walk in our clubhouse and you see when logan speaks, guys are listening. so, he is just upped his game and he is an upstanding pitcher . it is just his quality in the clubhouse and his leadership.
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>> he told us about a plane ride where he got to sit next to you got to know him a little bit better. how important are those minutes to build the culture on a team cracked it is huge. you know, typically when it all comes together you can have phone calls, zoom and whatever to try to get to know people. it is more when you're in the presence and so when guys are on the field and in uniform it seems to happen really quickly. but to be able to spend an entire plane ride with him and it was one of our recruitment things in the off-season, that is when you really get to know guys. and like 10 minutes, 20 minutes on the plane i felt like i known him for a long time. and i'm certainly happy he is on this team. >> getting jazz, opening-day just over a week away. you can walk or watch more of gines talk or download the podcast.
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the prime minister of israel define president biden. today netanyahu . netanyahu
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sisters need to enter the city in an ongoing effort to destroy hamas. more than 1 million palestinians fled to rother when israel bombed in the response to the attack when militants killed 800 people and cannot more than 200. since the war started, the death toll in gaza has surpassed 31,000. tonight a strong warning about ukraine's future. this x-rated defense is the country may not surprise much longer if military funny does not arrive. last week the by the demonstration found a workaround. the white house says it plans to send funding from other pentagon contracts. more money is needed to make a real difference. because of the war, athletes from russia and belarus won't be at the opening ceremony of the olympics in paris this summer.
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last year the international olympic committee suspended russia's olympic committee. belarus was also targeted for supporting russia's war effort against ukraine. athletes from the two nations will have to compete as individual athletes. >> team usa is adding another starches olympic roster. coco gauff will be making her debut. she clinched a spot due to her spot on the tennis tour. she's the first u.s. tennis player to qualify for this year's games. she didn't compete in the tokyo games after testing positive for mac. either way, the opening ceremony is right here on nbc is july 26 from paris. >> and jessica aguirre will be
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there . the mayor's plan to give the ferris wheel spinning for months to come but why could be a big help for the struggling tour spot. my daughter deserved to live, she should deserve fair, unbiased medical treatment. >> a grieving mother calling for changes at one of the largest healthcare providers in the bay area after she claims negligence caused her daughter her life. we are following a double shooting in the east bay that left a victim dead. the details on that case coming up. it evening and thanks for being with us.
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>> we're going to start with that shooting. tonight please are looking for men who shot two people in pleasant hill living one of them dead. it happened just before noon today. >> reporter: gunshots rang out in this pleasant hill apartment complex parking lot off twin bridge circle near jfk university. police say two men were shot multiple times. one of those men has died. the other is said to be seriously injured. >> what i can tell you is our detectors are actively working the case including canvassing the area for witnesses. >> reporter: police have not released any suspects or cart descriptions. we spoke with a woman who was walking nearby. >> i heard it but thought it was a car. when i come to find out that she has shot about three or four different shots. >> reporter: was she reached the scene, the older man was not moving and a younger man was badly hurt but talking to medics as they took him away. she says she saw

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