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Tom Brady’s ongoing clash with Logan Paul erupted yet again.

The former New England Patriots star slapped the WWE standout during a heated moment onstage at Fanatics Fest on Friday. The two stood face‑to‑face, trading words before Brady suddenly struck Paul, prompting Knicks star Karl‑Anthony Towns and event staff to step in and separate them before the confrontation escalated.

While the audio in the clip was hard to make out, WWE quickly amplified the moment by sharing its own angle to social media, capturing Paul’s apparent reaction: “Yo, get your boy. Get your boy, bro. Get your boy. Take him that way; he’s going to get himself hurt.”

Both men sounded off afterward on X.

“This happened bc I was roasting Tom for beating him in flag football. And he tries to smack me ?? Horrible example for the kids,” Paul wrote. “Aura -100 + Blocked. With a torn tricep.”

Brady fired back, calling Paul a “dork.”

“I tried America… will try again next time I see this nerd,” he added.

Friday’s clash added fresh fuel to a feud that’s been simmering since Super Bowl week, when Brady first argued Paul wasn’t a real athlete because he competes in WWE rather than on the gridiron.

As clips of the moment have gone viral overnight, fans are beginning to speculate that the back‑and‑forth might be part of a larger wrestling setup, especially after Brady publicly expressed interest in joining a WWE storyline during a live taping of “What Do You Wanna Talk About?” with Cody Rhodes on Thursday.

“I need to get an invite,” said Brady. “I’ve been waiting for [WWE president] Nick Khan to come up with some storyline for me to get in the mix. I feel like I’m retired from football, and I have an opportunity to go out there and still showcase that I’m a little bit of an athlete.”

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Many shoppers are now paying closer attention to where their food comes from as Taylor Farms removed iceberg lettuce sourced from central Mexico following an FDA investigation linking some of its lettuce to a cyclosporiasis outbreak.

Shoppers at the Mountain Farmers Market in Los Gatos said they prefer buying directly from the people who grow their produce.

“I love to meet the farmers, and I feel like just knowing where your food comes from is amazing. It just feels really good. It’s beautiful produce,” Los Gatos resident Mary Curtiss said.

The concern follows an FDA investigation linking shredded iceberg lettuce served at taco bell restaurants in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and west Virginia to a cyclosporiasis outbreak.

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Friday, Taco Bell released a statement after some of its customers reported feeling ill saying it would remove all Taylor Farms affected lettuce from its products.

Cyclosporiasis is a parasite that can contaminate fresh produce, causing severe and prolonged diarrhea.

The FDA urged customers in those states to avoid shredded iceberg lettuce supplied by Taylor Farms Mexico.

Taylor Farms says the FDA traceback points to a single independent farm, representing less than 1% of the nation’s iceberg lettuce supply.

But as a precaution, the company says it’s removing all iceberg lettuce from that growing region indefinitely.

The FDA says 1,644 people infected with cyclosporiasis who reported eating at taco bell have been reported by the five affected states.

Meanwhile, the CDC says it has received reports of 1,645 confirmed domestic cases of cyclosporiasis since May 1, with more than 5,100 additional reports still under review to determine whether they are domestically acquired cases of cyclosporiasis.

In California, health officials say there are no known local outbreaks.

“The fact that we haven’t seen that happen in California while so much is going in the Midwest, suggests that our food distribution, or the lot of vegetables that was implicated in the Midwest, was not sent to California, because you would expect a lot more people to be sick,” UCSF Infectious Disease Specialist Dr. Peter Chin-Hong said.

While California isn’t seeing a spike in cases, Chin-Hong says there are still simple ways to reduce risk.

“Use fruits that has a peel like avocados, melons, mangos, oranges, bananas, things you can peel. Because the inside of the fruit generally has very little contact with soil,” he said.

For those buying lettuce, Chin-Hong recommends choosing a whole head instead of bagged greens whenever possible and removing the outer leaves before eating.

Health officials recommended those who develop severe or prolonged diarrhea to contact their healthcare provider.

Police said Friday the YMCA summer camp counselor accused of sexually assaulting a girl at a summer day camp in Morgan Hill earlier this month had allegedly done the same thing to a second girl that same day.

Morgan Hill police said the report came on July 9, the same day 25-year-old Anthony Joseph Ramos of Gilroy, a YMCA summer camp counselor, was arrested after allegedly sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl.

According to authorities, the second incident occurred while the 10-year-old victim was attending the YMCA summer day camp on a field trip to the Morgan Hill Aquatic Center on the same day as the first victim.

Officials said Ramon has been working with YMCA since Aug. 6, 2024. After the first incident, authorities said Ramon was immediately placed on leave.

In light of the new report, Ramos was arrested on suspicion of lewd and lascivious acts on a minor on Thursday, according to police. Authorities said he has since posted bail and was released from custody.

The Department of Homeland Security is demanding that California and several other states respond to allegations of widespread voter registration problems involving noncitizens.

President Donald Trump leveled the charges during an address from the White House on Thursday. This also comes as Trump is trying to the Save America Act, which would require everyone to provide proof of citizenship in order to register to vote.

On Friday, Trump sent the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after states like California, where they claim close to a quarter of a million non-citizens are on the state’s voter rolls, without saying how they came up with that number.

And while a federal judge recently found that DHS wrongly classified a number of actual us citizens who had registered to be non-citizens, Matt Moreles with the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters said “When this has come up, it’s been really isolated.”

DHS says state election officials have to run their voter records through a federal database looking for non-citizens, or face severe penalties, including jail time.

“The conversation around are noncitizens registering, are noncitizens voting has been going on for years now, and we still haven’t seen any tangible credible evidence that this is a widespread problem,” Moreles said.

According to the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters, between 90 and 95% of their ballots are now sent by mail. And despite voters across the country, including at times Trump himself, voting successfully by mail, the president also called out that system as fraudulent.

“Hopefully there will be no corrupt mail in ballots, which if you watched California and so many other places, mail-in ballots are inherently corrupt,” he said.

A charge the county registrar has heard before, but so far with no corruption found.

“We have an extremely secure vote by mail process, extremely successful, I think we have a proven track record here in our county,” Merelos said.

In response to the accusations, Governor Gavin Newsom spoke out on Friday, going on social media to deny any voter fraud in California and saying Trump’s goal of making people show ID when they vote will help the Republican party.

NBC Bay Area also reached out to the Secretary of State’s Office, but have not yet heard back.

The families of two men who discovered through DNA tests that they were switched at birth 38 years ago are accusing a North Dakota hospital of robbing them of the lives they were supposed to lead.

Kyle Bylin discovered his birth family after taking an at-home test he chose randomly during a Christmas gift-exchange. That led to his biological aunt on a genealogy platform. Her nephew, Jeremy Morrison, then had his DNA tested. The results were irrefutable.

“That’s when my mind was just completely blown,” Bylin said. “We could have never imagined that it was an actual birth switch that occurred.”

Morrison said he was convinced as soon as he saw a photo of Bylin’s brother and realized they looked very much alike.

Bylin and Morrison were the only babies born on Jan. 26, 1988, at Unity Medical Center in Grafton, North Dakota, according to their lawsuit filed in state court last week. Somehow, they went home with the wrong parents.

A hospital statement says there’s no evidence staff were responsible for the switch.

But Bylin, born Jeremy Morrison, says he still has the hospital bracelet that misidentified him as Kyle Bylin.

The hospital records no longer exist

Two years have passed since the DNA tests shattered what they thought they knew about their families — including disorienting moments, emotional family meetings and thoughts about the what-ifs.

“Kyle is still my son — that is never going to change,” Evelyn Newton, who raised him as her own, told The Associated Press in a phone interview Friday. “But I feel robbed of the life I should have had with my biological son. You can’t go back and replace 35 years. First steps, driving a car, getting married — how do you make up for that?”

The hospital doesn’t dispute that the babies were switched at some point. It says it’s working to better understand what happened, but has uncovered no evidence that its administration or staff were responsible for the lives-altering error.

“We recognize the profound impact this discovery has had on them and their families,” Unity Medical’s statement says. “Unfortunately, because of the passage of nearly four decades, the medical and staffing records that might have provided additional clarity no longer exist, and no members of the delivery team from that time are still employed by the hospital.”

The knowledge hasn’t changed the way Morrison feels about the family he’s always known. He still thinks of the parents he grew up with — Elizabeth O’Toole and Terry Morrison — as his parents. And aside from some challenging times — like wishing he had a sibling to lean on when he was 7 and they divorced — he says his childhood was fine.

“I was loved. I played sports. I did well in school,” Morrison said. “A DNA test is not going to take away 38 years of memories.”

The shocking truth led to emotional encounters

Morrison now lives in Colorado City, Colorado, and works as a welding inspector for a wind energy company. Had he not been switched at birth, he figures he’d still be with his biological brother and father, working on the North Dakota grain farm where Bylin grew up.

Newton said she never had any thought that Kyle might not be their biological son as she and her then-husband, Keith Bylin, were raising him. True, the immediate family had light hair and Kyle’s was dark. But her husband had relatives with dark hair, and Newton herself was adopted, so she didn’t know what her own blood relatives looked like.

For Bylin, questions about nature versus nurture have become more personal. As he pursued an academic career far from North Dakota, he figured the political debates over Thanksgiving dinner were just a staple of American family life.

“You’re just kind of shaking your fist, like, how can this be my family? How am I so different from them?” Bylin said. “It turns out that we’re just totally different people, period.”

Bylin and Morrison have now met their biological parents — the encounters were welcoming but awkward, they said. They have yet to meet each other, but have spoken on the phone.

“We’ve tried to unite as a group and just recognize that no matter what, there’s different ways that this can be socially messy,” Bylin said. “Everyone’s getting to know people that they didn’t know before.”

Others have discovered they were switched at birth

Such cases are rare, but at-home DNA tests are making them easier to uncover:

• In 2024, two women sued the government of Norway alleging a breach of human rights after discovering they had been switched.
• Two men who believe they were switched at birth in 1942 sued a Roman Catholic diocese in West Virginia in 2020, alleging negligence and breach of duty by the hospital where they were born.
• In 2018 in Pennsylvania, testing revealed that two girls had been switched some 75 years earlier.
• In 2016, the Canadian government launched an investigation after DNA evidence indicated two men from a northern Manitoba Indigenous community were switched at birth in 1975.
• In 2024, two women sued the government of Norway alleging a breach of human rights after discovering they had been switched.

Modern tech helps hospitals prevent switches

Dr. Jonathan Marron, a pediatric oncologist who also teaches at Harvard Medical School’s Center for Bioethics, says such mix-ups should happen “pretty close to never” nowadays.

“As often as all clinicians, doctors, nurses, social workers, everybody else, gripe about the electronic health records,” the digital backstop is a clear benefit, Marron said.

Attorney Tim O’Keefe said he tried for a year to reach a monetary settlement with the hospital before filing a lawsuit claiming emotional distress due to negligence and medical malpractice. The families have spent this time adjusting to new realities.

“I know the truth now, but we’re still working to build relationships,” Morrison said. “I mean, it’s not like I can go back in time and rebuild what’s already lost. It’s a work in progress, just like me.”

Susan Montoya Bryan contributed from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Johnson reported from Seattle, Schuettler from Phoenix. Schuettler is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.

Paul Pelosi, husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was charged Friday with a misdemeanor hit-and-run over a collision with a parked car.

Pelosi, 86, was driving his brown convertible July 3 in Yountville, a town in the heart of wine country, when he struck a legally parked car on the side of the road, the Napa County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement at the time. He briefly stopped and then allegedly drove away. The parked car was unoccupied and no injuries were reported.

Pelosi did not have any alcohol in his system, according to the statement.

State law requires drivers involved in accidents resulting in property damage to stop and provide their vehicle and license information; Pelosi was charged with a misdemeanor violation of that law. In addition, Pelosi was charged with an infraction of making an unlawful turn, Napa County prosecutors said Friday.

No attorney for Paul Pelosi was listed in court records. Nancy Pelosi’s press office did not immediately respond to a call seeking comment.

Paul Pelosi’s court appearance is scheduled for Aug. 14.

Pelosi pleaded guilty in 2022 to misdemeanor charges of driving under the influence in Napa County and was sentenced to five days in jail and three years of probation. He served two days in jail and received good conduct credit for two other days, leaving just one day to serve in a work program at the courthouse.

As part of his probation, Pelosi was required to pay thousands in fines and victim restitution, attend a three-month drinking driver class and install an ignition interlock device, which forces drivers to provide a breath sample to prove sobriety before the engine will start.

That same year he was attacked and severely beaten with a hammer at the couple’s San Francisco home.

Lithium-ion batteries are believed to be responsible for a series of recent fires inside garbage trucks in San Jose.

The San Jose Fire Department said there have been four garbage truck fires in the last month alone, with the latest occurring on Friday.

“We know when lithium batteries are crushed or damaged, they can release sparks which can ignite materials around them, which then when they’re placed in the collection trucks can ignite the materials and cause fires,” Integrated Waste Management Deputy Director Judy Erlandson said.

When a fire breaks out in a garbage truck, the driver has to dump the debris onto the street so firefighters can extinguish the blaze.

San Jose leaders said no battery of any kind should ever go into a garbage or recycling bin. The Santa Clara County Household Hazardous Waste Program safely recycles lithium-ion batteries for residents who make an appointment.

Crews on Friday located the wreckage of a boat that sank in San Francisco Bay earlier in the week, leaving two people dead and two others missing, police said.

The 49-foot cabin cruiser named Volare was found by the San Francisco Police Department’s Marine Unit in the vicinity of where the boat sank Tuesday afternoon, according to police.

The Marine Unit had been utilizing boat-mounted sonar to locate the vessel since it sank, police said. Crews have since turned to using a remotely operated vehicle to assess the wreckage.

Police will work with partner agencies to evaluate recovery options and determine if it’s safe and feasible to recover the wreckage, police said.

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2 of 3 missing from capsized boat in San Francisco Bay identified

The boat sank with 20 people aboard after being hit by a wave and capsizing, officials said. The group was on the boat to scatter the ashes of a loved one.

One man, Clifford Boisa, died immediately after being retrieved from the chilly water, and three people were listed as missing. On Thursday, police recovered the body of one of the missing people, identified as Tondra Madruga, 58, also known as Tondra Miller.

Ralph Boisa said his extended family and some close friends were on the boat Tuesday to celebrate the life of his daughter, who died over a decade ago. Madruga was a friend.

The two people who remain missing are Ralph Boisa’s sister, Carol, and Clifford Boisa’s wife, Jackie, he said.

A brush fire was burning near Clayton Friday afternoon.

The blaze, which broke out near Morgan Territory and Marsh Creek roads, has scorched roughly 50 acres and was burning with a moderate rate of spread, according to Cal Fire. Authorities added the fire is 10% contained.

The fire began shortly before 3 p.m., and Contra Costa Fire officials said it moved quickly, with the terrain making it difficult for crews to access.

“First units that arrived found a rapidly moving fire moving uphill in somewhat difficult conditions,” Contra Costa County Fire Chief Aaron McAlister said.

It prompted an evacuation warning to Morgan Territory State Park and Mount Diablo State Park. Authorities warned residents in the area they should prepare to evacuate.

Morgan Territory Road was temporarily closed before being reopened Friday evening. For residents like Juan Rios, who says this area has a history of brush fires, any evacuation warning is enough to get his attention.

“We get pretty concerned because we’re surrounded with pine trees, our houses can be burned down in a heartbeat,” he said.

Firefighters expect to be out here overnight, working to build containment lines and keep the fire from spreading.

This is a developing story. Details may change as more information becomes available. Stay tuned for updates.

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BART trains are filling up again and people are excited about it.

Officials at BART announced Thursday that June was the transit agency’s best month for ridership since the COVID-19 pandemic-induced slowdown cratered passenger numbers, and BART credited major sporting and community events with the dramatic rise.

Ridership rose by 18.6% in June as compared to the same period last year. The month marked the end of the agency’s 2025-2026 fiscal year, which outperformed the previous year by 13%.

BART credits the steady rise in ridership recovery, now at about 56% of 2019 levels, to the agency’s “growing role beyond the traditional commute.”

People have been regularly using trains to travel to major sporting events, such as the 2026 FIFA World Cup, and large cultural celebrations like San Francisco Pride.

Several post-pandemic records were also broken. June saw the highest single ridership day, the highest average weekday and weekend ridership, and all-time highs for certain stations.

Chris Filippi, a spokesperson with BART, said the positive trend is why the agency has decided to add capacity during peak commute hours by bringing back 10-car trains — which had not been regularly used since the start of the pandemic.

“It’s very exciting to see not just the increase in June but what is now two consecutive years of double-digit ridership growth,” said Filippi.

While ridership is showing positive signs of recovery, the transit agency warned fare revenue remains insufficient to sustain regular BART operations. Since the depletion of pandemic-related emergency federal funds, the agency and others continue to face a budget deficit unless new sources of revenue are found.

The Connect Bay Area Act, a regional measure proposing a sales tax in five Bay Area counties, received enough signatures to appear on the ballot in this year’s November election. The measure will introduce a sales tax if approved by voters in Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara counties.

Proponents have said it will help create a robust new source of revenue that will help reduce the likelihood of drastic cuts to service and operations.

Taylor Fresh Foods said Friday it was voluntarily removing all iceberg lettuce sourced from central Mexico from the U.S.

The recall comes amid an escalating outbreak of cyclosporiasis — a stomach bug that causes weeks of severe diarrhea — that federal health officials have linked to lettuce from certain Taco Bell restaurants.

Taylor Fresh Foods said in a statement that the move was prompted by information provided by the Food and Drug Administration.

“While the FDA traceback is indicating a specific independent farm, which represents less than 1% of the U.S.’s iceberg lettuce supply, as the potential source of the outbreak, we have removed all iceberg lettuce from the region indefinitely,” the statement said. “No other Taylor Fresh Foods products across the country are impacted.”

Earlier Friday, the FDA said in an alert: “Do not eat shredded iceberg lettuce from Mexico served at Taco Bell locations in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia.”

It’s unclear whether produce from Taylor Farms could be linked to cases in other states with outbreaks. Health officials have said it’s likely that multiple outbreaks are ongoing in at least 34 states.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in emailed statement Friday morning that shredded lettuce sold in grocery stores or served in other restaurants is not affected.

Nationwide, nearly 7,000 people may have been sickened with the stomach bug that causes weeks of severe diarrhea. As of Friday, the CDC had confirmed 1,644 of those cases and was investigating more than 5,100. No deaths have been reported.

In an emailed statement Thursday, Taco Bell said it has voluntarily removed lettuce suspected in the outbreak from its supply chain nationwide “indefinitely” and will replace it in selected states within the next day.

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Lettuce at Taco Bell in 5 states confirmed as a source of diarrhea-causing parasite

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Iceberg lettuce supplier investigated as possible source in cyclosporiasis outbreak

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The company did not name Taylor Farms in its statement, but said it believes “public health is a shared responsibility among restaurants, their suppliers, and authorities, and we are proud to have consistently acted quickly and proactively to protect our guests,” the statement read. “We encourage all relevant restaurants, retailers, and foodservice operators to do the same.”

The link between Taylor Farms and the outbreak was first reported by the Washington Post.

Michigan has been hit the hardest in the outbreak, with 5,002 cases as of Friday. (The CDC’s count often lags behind state counts.) The state Health Department said that 102 people in Michigan have had to be hospitalized.

Michigan health officials previously flagged lettuce and salad greens as a potential source based on more than 1,000 interviews with people who’ve tested positive. The health department has since conducted 2,025 such interviews.

Not all people who’ve been sickened in Michigan say they ate at a Taco Bell.

“Many did not report eating lettuce at a restaurant chain or other food establishment. However, lettuce still appeared frequently in food questionnaires, including those without restaurant or fast-food exposure, Michigan’s Health Department said in a statement Friday.

Getting to the source of the outbreak has been difficult, as the incubation period for the parasite to make a person sick can be up to two weeks.

This isn’t the first time Taylor Farms has been connected to a cyclosporiasis outbreak. In 2013, 631 people in 25 states were sickened by a salad mix linked to the company, health officials concluded. Many of the illnesses occurred in Iowa and Nebraska among people who’d eaten at Olive Garden and Red Lobster. The outbreak was eventually traced to a salad mix from a Taylor Farms processing plant in Mexico.

Health officials also determined that Taylor Farms was also at the root of a 2024 E. coli outbreak linked to slivered onions on McDonald’s Quarter Pounder hamburgers. According to the Food and Drug Administration, 104 people were sickened in 14 states in that outbreak. Nearly three dozen were hospitalized, four people, including at least one child, developed severe kidney problems. One person, an older adult from Colorado, died.

Marina Kopf contributed.

A 31-year-old San Jose man was speeding in excess of 140 mph in the moments leading up to a fiery crash late last year that left a mother and her 2-year-old child dead, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office announced Friday.

Zachary Chernicky was arrested on Monday and later charged with two counts of murder in connection with the Dec. 2, 2025, crash on northbound Highway 87 near Curtner Avenue that claimed the lives of 30-year-old Ivana Balistreri and her daughter Lilliana.

The district attorney’s office said Chernicky was driving his Tesla 142 mph 15 seconds before the crash, 126 mph five seconds before impact and 102 mph when he plowed into the back of a stopped Lexus carrying Ivana and Lilliana. Chernicky’s Tesla, the Lexus and another Tesla burst into flames.

Ivana and Lilliana burned to death, according to the district attorney’s office. Chernicky suffered minor injuries.

“The law says that it is murder when someone shoots into a crowd,” District Attorney Jeff Rosen said in a statement. “When someone is driving 140 mph, then the driver is the shooter and their car is the bullet.”

Chernicky was arraigned on Tuesday and remanded to jail without bail, the district attorney’s office said. His next court date was set for Aug. 25.

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San Jose’s San Pedro Square is getting ready for one final weekend of FIFA World Cup watch parties after weeks of drawing large crowds.

Businesses in the area are expecting another busy weekend as fans gather to watch the tournament’s final two matches. The third-place match between France and England is scheduled for Saturday, followed by the World Cup final between Spain and Argentina on Sunday.

At the Old Wagon Saloon, employees say fans have packed the venue throughout the tournament and expect another strong turnout.

“We think Saturday is going to be grande, it’s going to be big,” said Sonny Walker of the Old Wagon Saloon. “I think that those two matches Saturday and Sunday are going to be really big, doing all the preparations, tightening down the tables, those chairs, all that little stuff.”

Walker said some staff members hope the excitement surrounding the World Cup continues even after Sunday’s championship match, while others are looking forward to a chance to catch their breath after weeks of hosting large crowds.

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Community activists in Oakland are calling for greater transparency following an officer-involved shooting that left a man dead earlier this week.

According to Oakland police, the shooting happened Monday afternoon in a shopping center parking lot near International Boulevard and 40th Avenue.

Police said the man lunged at officers with a knife after officers attempted to de-escalate the situation by giving commands, but he refused to comply.

The incident began after the California Highway Patrol was investigating a homeless man armed with a knife. Police said the man ran away from CHP officers before the encounter with Oakland police.

At a news conference Friday, community activists said they do not accept the department’s explanation and are demanding Oakland police release all body camera footage from the incident.

“They brought a gun to a blade fight,” said Cat Brooks, co-founder and executive director of the Anti Police-Terror Project. Brooks also questioned why CHP officers were involved and said there has been “an uptick on racial profiling.”

The shooting marks the third time this year that Oakland police officers have shot a person.

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A Union City woman was arrested after allegedly selling alcohol without permits at Lake Merritt following a monthlong investigation by the Oakland Police Department and the city’s Economic & Workforce Development Department.

Police said officers first contacted the woman on June 19 after investigating reports of an unlicensed mobile alcohol vendor at 599 El Embarcadero.

Authorities said they seized alcohol, warned her that she lacked the required state and local permits, and advised her that continuing to operate would be unlawful.

Investigators later found a social media post that they said showed the woman continued selling alcohol, OPD said.

During a follow-up operation on Friday, police said an underage decoy purchased alcohol from the woman without being asked for identification. An undercover officer also bought alcohol in a separate transaction, according to police.

The woman was arrested on suspicion of possessing and serving alcohol in a public park and was booked into Santa Rita Jail on charges related to unlawful alcohol sales.

Police said she later admitted she knew her operation was illegal and that she did not have the required permits.

Some Oakland firefighters went viral this week for providing oxygen to an ailing pigeon.

In a post on social media Tuesday night, Oakland Firefighters Local 55 said a crew noticed a pigeon in distress following a vehicle fire.

The pigeon, seemingly suffering from smoke inhalation from the blaze, approached the firefighters in an apparent call for help, the crew reported.

Video posted by Oakland Firefighters Local 55 showed a firefighter holding a small bag of oxygen up to the pigeon’s head. The bird was able to clear its lungs and flew away a short time later, the firefighters said.

Video of the assist went viral on social media. As of Friday morning, the video had over 1.2 million likes on Instagram.

A strong earthquake struck the southern Mexican Pacific coast on Friday, right on the border with Guatemala, and was felt from Mexico City to El Salvador. Authorities have not immediately reported any severe damage or casualties in any country.

The U.S. Geological Survey reported that the earthquake had a magnitude of 7.3 with the epicenter 30 miles southwest of Aquiles Serdan, near the coast of Chiapas and at a depth of nine miles. It was preceded by a smaller quake with an epicenter a bit farther out in the ocean.

There were at least five aftershocks between magnitude 5.1 and 6, according to USGS.

In Tapachula, the main city on Mexico’s southern border, the tremor began mildly but gradually intensified.

“We were upstairs on the second floor when it started shaking; we thought it would pass, but then it got stronger, so we all went downstairs and evacuated in an orderly manner to the front courtyard,” Alejandra Mendoza, an administrative employee at a public hospital in the city, explained to The Associated Press.

In Guatemala City, the earthquake frightened residents because of how long it lasted. Many people poured into the streets in the middle of rush hour as the workday was beginning and several buildings were evacuated.

Guatemala’s National Coordinator for Disaster Reduction (CONRED) reported no immediate damage. Social media users posted videos of some landslides, especially on roads heading west.

The Ministry of Education suspended in-person classes in the departments of San Marcos, Quetzaltenango, Suchitepéquez and Retalhuleu, near the quake’s epicenter.

In the Mexican capital, where buildings in certain areas creaked and shook, the earthquake alert did not sound because, the government said, “the energy radiated by the earthquake during the first few seconds did not exceed the activation thresholds.”

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said that preliminary reports showed no damage. The navy recommended staying away from beaches for six hours because of tsunami risk.

The Meteorological Service of Chiapas alerted that there could be tsunami waves up to 1 meter (3.3 feet) off the coast of Mexico and Guatemala.

In the town of Suchiate, located along the river that separates Mexico from Guatemala, coastal areas are being monitored for tsunami risk, according to Mayor Elmer Vázquez Gallardo.

The region is prone to earthquakes, many that can be deadly. Earlier this year, a strong earthquake rattled southern and central Mexico, killing two. Hundreds in Mexico City were killed in a 7.1 magnitude earthquake in 2017.

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Sonia Pérez D. contributed from Guatemala City. María Verza contributed from Mexico City.

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A source of a widespread outbreak of cyclosporiasis, a parasitic infection known for causing “explosive” diarrhea, in several Midwest states has been officially identified.

Federal health officials said lettuce from Mexico served at Taco Bell locations across five states has been named a source of the rapid spread in cases, though additional sources could still be named.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention late Thursday warned consumers not to eat shredded iceberg lettuce from Taco Bell restaurants in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia.

A Food and Drug Administration investigation identified a single supplier of the lettuce. The federal warnings to consumers did not identify the company, but a person familiar with the investigation told NBC News it was Taylor Farms of Salinas, California.

Taylor Farms did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The company was also tied to a 2013 cyclosporiasis outbreak linked to salad mix and a 2024 E. coli outbreak tied to onions served at McDonald’s.

“FDA is working with the supplier of iceberg lettuce to determine if potentially contaminated shredded iceberg lettuce remains on the market, including in other states,” the CDC said. “Taco Bell has committed to stop using any lettuce from the supplier identified by FDA’s traceback investigation.”

In a statement, federal health officials stressed that other “brands, restaurants, retailers, or distribution channels” could be identified as the investigation continues.

Taco Bell said earlier this week that it had “voluntarily and temporarily removed” certain ingredients from some locations amid the outbreak.

“The health and safety of our guests is our top priority,” Taco Bell Corp said in its statement. “Public health officials have not confirmed a link to Taco Bell or any specific ingredient, supplier, restaurant or retailer. While authorities continue their broader review, Taco Bell has voluntarily and temporarily removed limited ingredients at select restaurants as a precautionary measure. We will continue to closely monitor the situation and follow the guidance of public health authorities.”

Last week, local news outlets in the Detroit area reported signs at certain Taco Bell locations indicating the restaurants had pulled lettuce, cilantro, onion, pico de gallo and guacamole.

A record number of Cyclospora cases have been reported in more than 30 states, and experts have said not every recent U.S. illness might be caused by a single source.

CDC, FDA and public health officials in several states have been investigating a multistate outbreak that led to thousands of infections.

Michigan has seen the most cases of cyclosporiasis of any state in the U.S. so far — and by a large margin. As of Friday, more than 5,000 cases had been reported in the state.

Health officials there had previously said “current results point to lettuce or salad greens” as the source, but they noted that “other food items cannot be completely ruled out.”

More than 30 states have reported infections this year, and current data from them shows the number of infections surpassing the record U.S. mark of about 4,700 set in 2019.

“This is much, much higher than what we’ve seen last year or the year before,” Gwen Biggerstaff, deputy director of the CDC’s Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases, said. “This is a pretty big shift from what we’ve seen in previous seasons.”

Cyclospora is a microscopic, spherical parasite that commonly causes watery diarrhea “with frequent and sometimes explosive bowel movements,” according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Outbreaks tend to occur most often in the late spring and summer.

The heat-loving parasite infects the bowels and spreads through feces. In the past, people have been infected by consuming fruits or vegetables that were exposed to feces-contaminated irrigation water.

The illness, called cyclosporiasis, is less common than foodborne illnesses caused by other germs, including Salmonella and E. coli. Many cases are never linked to a specific food or other source and, for years, few U.S. cyclospora outbreaks were reported. But the number started rising about a decade ago, with a particularly notable spike in 2018 and 2019.

Experts say it’s likely that cyclospora cases historically were underreported, in part because some common tests used to check for food poisoning have not been geared to detect cyclospora. They attribute the increasing trend in cases to climate change and better detection.

Anyone experiencing frequent, watery diarrhea is being urged to contact their healthcare provider and “specifically request testing for cyclospora as routine stool tests may miss the parasite,” health officials said.

Treatment for confirmed infections will include antibiotics, but those who contract it should also be prepared to rest and drink fluids to maintain hydration.

A San Francisco business owner who says he was once one of Waymo’s strongest supporters is now calling for changes to the company’s emergency response policies after alleging he was trapped inside one of its autonomous vehicles while it was being vandalized.

Sherman Watson says he also wants access to surveillance footage from the vehicle, arguing it could help him process and document what happened during the incident.

Watson, who frequently posted videos of his driverless rides on social media, said he had long been an advocate for the technology.

“One thing about Waymo is there’s no driver, which in certain cases is great because a lot of people don’t like to talk to drivers, or they feel uncomfortable,” Watson said.

According to Watson, that perspective changed during an early Saturday morning ride in May after he spent the evening with friends in San Francisco’s Marina District.

Watson alleges the Waymo vehicle stopped at the intersection of Pierce and Lombard Street, where he saw two young men approach the robocar and jerked its front bumper.

“The smashing began right away. And they were doing it in tandem. So, one would come up, the other would go grab something. They put this like weird foam thing on top of the hood and then they climbed up,” he said.

“And at that point I froze, you know, I just panicked, I froze so I called 911 and Waymo came on,” Watson said.

Watson alleges that while he was inside the vehicle, someone from Waymo spoke to him through the car’s overhead communication system.

“The only thing they said is ‘we realized there’s a problem with the vehicle.’ I said, ‘Yes, someone’s trying to kill me.'”

Watson said he repeatedly asked the company to get him out there.

Watson further alleges he continued asking to leave the scene while the vehicle was under attack.

Videos posted online have shown other incidents in which Waymo vehicles have been vandalized, spray-painted or set on fire.

Watson said San Francisco police arrived about 35 minutes after he called 911 and he filed a report. He said the people who allegedly attacked the vehicle had already left.

The San Francisco Police Department’s report identifies Waymo as the victim and Watson as a witness. According to the report, the incident was classified as malicious mischief. The report documents Watson’s account that two suspects threw items at the vehicle, jumped on it and broke a window. It also notes damage to the windshield and states the vehicle was towed from the scene by Waymo staff.

According to Waymo’s website, its vehicles are equipped with 29 exterior cameras that provide 360-degree visibility, as well as interior cameras intended to help in emergencies and promote safety.

Watson said he requested surveillance footage from both Waymo and the San Francisco Police Department but has not received it.

“Waymo’s like here’s five free rides and we’re sorry we missed the mark,” Watson said.”Their inaction in that moment when I was in that car. No policy changes, inaction, and that’s why I’m here.”

The San Francisco Police Department said it generally does not release video footage from incidents and is not the custodian of the recording. Waymo has said it needs legal justification to access the footage. However, according to the narrative in the police report, an officer requested the footage the night of the incident.

Waymo states that, statistically, its autonomous vehicles are safer than vehicles operated by human drivers.

But Watson argues that having a human driver present could have changed the outcome.

“When you’re in an Uber, at least you have an ally. You may not like that driver, you may not like the car, but at least that person’s an ally. And that person would have gotten me out of that intersection,” he said.

Watson is now urging Waymo to revise its emergency response procedures protocol to keep passengers safe.

“I don’t remember them using anything internally, like a horn or flashing lights”, Watson said. “Pull your engineers in, suspend service, evening service for a week, you know? Get policy in place and then protect your customers.”

Waymo did not provide further comment regarding Watson’s specific allegations that it failed to do more to protect him during the incident. It remains unclear whether San Francisco police ever obtained the vehicle’s surveillance footage. Watson said he has also contacted local and state officials seeking assistance in obtaining the recording but, more than two months after the incident, says he still has not been allowed to view it.

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San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has reached out to the state regarding standards for autonomous vehicles during emergencies and major events, following incidents involving Waymo vehicles during the Fourth of July celebrations and the city’s days-long power outage in 2025.

Fourth of July celebrations in San Francisco drew big crowds. It was a rare opportunity to see fireworks launched from the Golden Gate Bridge; but afterwards, echoes of the rockets were drowned out by complaints of traffic jams when people tried to leave.

In a letter to the State Secretary of Transportation, Mayor Lurie indicated that before the fireworks began, driverless Waymo vehicles struggled to navigate the extra cars and pedestrians, and by the end of the show autonomous vehicles became immobilized on the roads, blocking key streets and ultimately bringing traffic to a standstill.

“That situation, or that kind of special situation, we are going to face those situations in any city, have to be taken into consideration. Companies like Waymo and the rest of the companies that are trying to deploy those kind of autonomous cars, they have to ask themselves what if, it’s not a perfect world,” Professor and Tech Expert at San Jose State Ahmed Banafa said.

Banafa says the question being raised is about training and communication for all scenarios. Lurie also mentioned a major power outage in 2025, where Waymo’s became immobilized during traffic signal outages.

Lurie indicated the states’ challenge is not just whether autonomous vehicles can operate safely under normal conditions but whether they can perform reliably under extraordinary ones.

“I am waiting to see what they are going to do. Are they willing to take a step forward and talk to city hall and meet with the mayor or the mayors of different cities or go to the level of the state and have a regulation that is going to be unified across California?” Banafa said.

Lurie says that by establishing clear statewide operational standards California can ensure sure every community has consistent expectations for how autonomous vehicle fleets perform during major events and emergency incidents. He outlined four operational capabilities, including keeping people moving, responding in real time, operational transparency and being able to prove their readiness before they deploy.

“I think he did the right thing because he was very specific about the demands and how to go forward, I mean he mentioned four important points about how to deal with situation like this in the future when it comes to autonomous cars,” Banafa said.

After the Fourth of July, Waymo said extreme congestion disrupted operations for several vehicles and their team is evaluating ways to strengthen their resilience in major traffic disruptions.

NBC Bay Area reached out for comment on the letter and received this response from a Waymo spokesperson:

“We appreciate Mayor Lurie and the City of San Francisco for the ongoing partnership with Waymo, and keeping SF at the forefront of innovation. Waymo has successfully supported some of the city’s biggest events, including FIFA World Cup games, this year’s Super Bowl and Fan Fast, and NBA All-Star Weekend. The City and Waymo share a mutual goal of providing safe and accessible transportation for visitors and residents alike. We will continue to partner with the City’s agencies, collaborating with them on the learnings based on the millions of rides we have provided in San Francisco.”

Meta says it will use AI to alert parents if their kids are having trouble on social media, but it’s a solution that some privacy advocates call dangerous.

Meta knows kids are on Instagram, and they know parents might be worried about it, so the company is turning to AI.

Kira Wong O’Connor manages Meta’s Youth Safety policy, and she says the AI can let parents know, if they sign up for alerts, that there “may” be a problem to get humans involved.

“If their teen is discussing suicide or self-harm with Meta AI, and what we do is then we notify a parent if they’re in parental supervision that their teen is discussing these topics,” she said.

It’s a way to use technology to fight back against a big social media related issue. However, privacy advocates say AI watching kids makes an already risky situation even riskier.

“There are so many untold ways this could go wrong, from just a privacy perspective,” Free Press Chief Counsel Nora Benevidez said. “Some of that could be very promising, but in the hands of kids, these AI tools should not be trusted to solve young people’s problems.”

To sign up for parental supervision, parents and their teens will have to sign up on Instagram.

San Francisco police recovered a body in the Bay near Treasure Island on Thursday. Hours later, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner identified the body as one of the people who went missing after a boat capsized on Tuesday.

The Office of the Chief Medical Examined identified the body as 58-year-old Tondra Miller of Sacramento County, also known as Tondra Madruga.

At 1:02 p.m., police received an alert from a passing vessel of a body in the water west of Treasure Island, according to an SFPD news release. A police marine unit recovered the body and pronounced the person dead on scene.

Police did not initially say whether the recovered body may be one of the three missing people who were aboard the vessel that capsized near Alcatraz Island on Tuesday afternoon. Out of the total 20 passengers aboard the 49-foot cabin cruiser, one was pronounced dead and three remained missing as of earlier Thursday.

Miller has been the only victim recovered so far. Family members aboard the vessel identified the other two as Carol Boisa and Jackie Boisa, the sister and wife of Clifford Boisa, the first person confirmed dead after the incident.

Miller’s family shared the following message on Facebook:

“As this event has received significant public attention, we thank you for respecting the privacy of our family and all those affected as we grieve. Our hearts remain with every family impacted, and we sincerely appreciate your kindness and understanding.”

The U.S. Coast Guard had searched for the remaining passengers using multiple search and rescue technologies, including thermal imaging and tide prediction for more than 24 hours before suspending the search on Wednesday at sundown.

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The California Highway Patrol arrested a driver who the agency determined to be at fault in a fiery San Jose crash that left a mother and her child dead late last year.

Zachary Chernicky of San Jose was arrested without incident on Monday in connection with the deadly wreck on Highway 87 on Dec. 2, 2025.

The crash happened in the northbound direction of the highway near Curtner Avenue, the CHP said. Ivana Balistreri and her young daughter Lilliana were killed. At least two other people were injured.

Two Tesla vehicles, a Lexus and a Toyota Sienna were involved in the crash, the CHP said. Three of those vehicles – both Teslas and the Lexus – caught fire. Ivana and Lilliana were passengers in the Lexus. Chernicky was driving one of the Teslas, the CHP said.

The crash, cleanup and investigation shut down northbound Highway 87 for several hours.

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President Donald Trump used a primetime address to the nation Thursday to elevate his yearslong push to raise doubts about the legitimacy of U.S. elections and dispute his 2020 loss in an appeal for more restrictive voting laws ahead of the midterms.

Trump’s amplification of debunked theories about the election six years ago and his inability to accept his loss led to one of the darker moments in American history when a mob of his supporters led a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in the final days of his first term.

Now back in power, Trump opted to revisit the subject, despite persistent voter concerns about the cost of living, American forces escalating strikes on Iran in a conflict for which there is no end in sight, and an immigration crackdown facing bipartisan scrutiny for its sometimes deadly tactics.

His address Thursday hinged on contradictions.

A twice-elected president complained about his one personal defeat, alleged a cover-up by officials in his own first administration and surfaced claims about countries attempting to harm his own prospects while staying silent on steps taken by other nations to boost him.

Trump used the remarks to justify his push to pass a strict voter ID bill in Congress that has not advanced because it lacks enough support from Republicans.

“America is back and doing really well, but we still have a major challenge that must be urgently addressed, because no country can be great without fair and honest elections,” he said.

Trump doesn’t raise doubts about his election wins

Trump began Thursday night with a stark warning about what he described as flaws in the voting system and said he was releasing previously classified documents related to the 2020 and 2018 elections, when he lost the presidential election and his party suffered losses.

Trump’s speech presented allegations of interference and influence in ways that lacked key context, and did not produce evidence that votes had been manipulated or that the election outcome had been altered.

Notably, Trump focused on China but glossed over Russia, a country that intelligence officials have said favored Trump in 2016 and 2020 and engaged in wide-ranging influence campaigns aimed at boosting him over Democrat Joe Biden in the latter campaign.

Despite focusing on China in his speech, Trump did not criticize or issue a warning to Chinese President Xi Jinping, whom he has long praised.

Election security experts say America’s decentralized voting system, with the power over elections residing with the states instead of the federal government, is a strength. Americans vote in more than 10,000 different jurisdictions with different rules, making the nations’ elections extraordinarily complicated but safe from widespread fraud.

No credible intelligence has emerged showing that the vote count in 2020 was manipulated by foreign actors. Repeated audits and reviews — manyrun by Republicans, including Trump’s own then-attorney general — have found no significant fraud occurred in 2020.

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Even if substantiated, Trump’s claims did not amount to conduct that would have altered the outcome of any race, let alone the 2020 race for the White House.

He also did not raise doubts about his election wins in 2016 or 2024.

As Trump spoke, the White House unveiled a website containing documents that were presented without context and included selectively released pieces of investigation files, intelligence analysis and correspondence.

Former intelligence official calls address ‘dangerous’

Sue Gordon, principal deputy director of national intelligence in Trump’s first term, called the president’s address “a dangerous speech about an incredibly important topic.” She said the intelligence community throughout Trump’s first term was alarmed about foreign interference in elections, but Trump scoffed at them, angered at the investigation of his campaign’s relationship with Russia.

“He had an entire term to deal with it and I don’t know how you can believe how the same community that told him about it, that was excoriated about it” wouldn’t warn him in 2020, Gordon said on CNN.

Conservative commentator John Solomon, who joined the White House staff last month and was seated in the East Room for Trump’s speech, later told MS NOW that “the intelligence community has zero evidence that someone has flipped – that a foreign power flipped — a vote in 2020, ‘22 or ’24.”

But, he added, “We’re not through all the documents.”

Trump urged the Justice Department to conduct investigations and prosecutions, though it was unclear from his speech what sort of criminal conduct — if any — could be identified, proven and charged.

In a contrast with his concerns about foreign interference in elections, Trump in his new budget proposes a $707 million cut in the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, the group charged with protecting American election systems from overseas cyberattacks. Trump and other conservatives have been frustrated that the organization pushed back on election claims in 2020 and beyond.

Some networks did not air it live

In past presidencies, primetime addresses have typically been reserved for major milestones or nationally significant events.

Trump last spoke to the nation in April, giving an address on the Iran war a month after it started. He said then that the U.S. would accomplish its objectives “very shortly” and that “the hard part is done, so it should be easy.” The war, however, has dragged on and strikes between the U.S. and Iran have intensified this week.

Trump also delivered a politically charged primetime speech in December in which he sought to blame the challenging economic climate on Democrats.

ABC, NBC and CNN did not air Thursday’s remarks live but carried them in full on their streaming services.

CBS and MS NOW both cut away from Trump’s speech before he finished, while Fox News continued to carry his address.

Trump called out the media outlets for not carrying it live, accused them of being “part of a plot” and suggested their broadcast licenses be revoked.

Networks typically — but not always — carry presidential addresses to the nation live. In 2022, when Biden delivered a primetime address full of warnings about Trump and his adherents’ “extreme ideology,” the networks did not carry it live.

In 2014, the major networks chose to stick with their primetime programming instead of airing an address by President Barack Obama on his plans for immigration reform.

Democrats accuse Trump of seeking to discredit next election

Democrats warned that Trump was trying to revive false claims of past stolen elections in order to delegitimize the 2026 midterm elections, in which Trump’s Republican Party is facing headwinds.

Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia called Trump’s claims “totally bogus.”

“The fact is our intelligence agencies unanimously agreed that China did not even try to change a single vote in the 2020 election,” Warner said in a statement on X. “A single concurring opinion suggested China may have tried to sway voters’ opinions … but that’s been public knowledge since 2021.”

Rep. Joseph Morelle of New York, the ranking Democrat on the administration committee that handles federal voting issues and elections, said Trump is trying to sow confusion before the midterm elections.

“This is a pretext for the president, I think, calling into dispute the 2026 elections,” Morelle said on C-SPAN, adding that “we have secure elections.”

“I heard no concrete allegations that foreign actors actually changed the results of an American election,” Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware said on CNN.

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Associated Press writers Mary Clare Jalonick, Lisa Mascaro and Will Weissert in Washington, Ali Swenson and Jocelyn Noveck in New York and Nicholas Riccardi in Denver contributed to this report.

The Food and Drug Administration is investigating iceberg lettuce supplied to Taco Bell by Taylor Farms as a possible source in an escalating outbreak of cyclosporiasis, a stomach bug that causes weeks of severe diarrhea, in five states, according to a person familiar with the investigation.

Nationwide, nearly 7,000 people may have been sickened, with 1,645 of those cases confirmed and more than 5,100 still under investigation, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. No deaths have been reported.

Earlier this week, the CDC announced an investigation into more than 400 cases in Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky. A source with knowledge of the federal health investigation said Thursday that Indiana appears to be part of that outbreak.

The possible outbreak source was first reported by the Washington Post.

It’s unclear whether produce from Taylor Farms could be linked to cases in other states with cases. Health officials have said it’s likely that multiple outbreaks are ongoing in at least 34 states.

In an emailed statement, Taco Bell said it has voluntarily removed lettuce suspected in the outbreak from its supply chain nationwide “indefinitely” and will replace it in selected states within the next day.

“While no official advisory has been issued, we believe public health is a shared responsibility among restaurants, their suppliers, and authorities, and we are proud to have consistently acted quickly and proactively to protect our guests,” the statement read. “We encourage all relevant restaurants, retailers, and foodservice operators to do the same.”

Taylor Farms did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Michigan has been hit hardest in the outbreak, with 4,312 cases as of Thursday. (The CDC’s count often lag behind state counts.) The state’s health department said that 102 people in Michigan have had to be hospitalized.

Michigan health officials previously flagged lettuce and salad greens as a potential source based on more than 1,000 interviews with people who’ve tested positive.

Getting to the source of the outbreak has been difficult, as the incubation period for the parasite to make a person sick can be up to two weeks.

This isn’t the first time Taylor Farms has been connected to a cyclosporiasis outbreak. In 2013, 631 people in 25 states were sickened by a salad mix linked to the company, health officials concluded. Many of the illnesses occurred in Iowa and Nebraska among people who’d eaten at Olive Garden and Red Lobster. The outbreak was eventually traced to a salad mix from a Taylor Farms processing plant in Mexico.

Health officials also determined that Taylor Farms was also at the root of a 2024 E. coli outbreak linked to slivered onions on McDonald’s Quarter Pounder hamburgers. According to the FDA, 104 people were sickened in 14 states in that outbreak. Nearly three dozen were hospitalized, four people, including at least one child, developed severe kidney problems. One person, an older adult from Colorado, died.

Marina Kopf contributed.

A new two-part documentary examines the infamous Scott Peterson case and claims of scientific evidence suggesting the convicted killer is innocent.

“Scott Peterson: The New Evidence” focuses on the Los Angeles Innocence Project, which has been helping in Peterson’s quest for a new trial. The documentary also delves into what it says are unexplored angles.

The 53-year-old Peterson is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole after he was convicted of killing his wife Laci, who was eight months pregnant.

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Some believe prosecutors had tunnel vision when they declared Peterson as the main suspect.

Prosecutors said he dumped his wife’s body in the Berkeley Marina on Christmas Eve 2002 and tried to cover up the crime by making it appear as if she were missing. The bodies of her and her unborn son washed ashore in San Francisco Bay four months after she vanished.

In a statement to People, Laci’s mother said there is no new evidence in the case.

Meanwhile, Peterson faces an uphill battle in his attempt to get a new trial. A judge recently rejected all claims brought by the Los Angeles Innocence Project and prosecutors applauded the decision.

The Los Angeles Innocence Project, which took on Peterson’s case in 2023, has previously said it has evidence that proves Peterson is innocent, including evidence showing that a home across the street from the Petersons’ was burglarized on the day Laci went missing and evidence showing a witness overheard a conversation among the burglars that Laci saw them and confronted them.

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According to the organization, a van was also set on fire hours after Laci was reported as missing. The van allegedly had a mattress in the back that had apparent bloodstains on it.

Scott Peterson: The New Evidence premieres Thursday and Friday on A&E.

The network also released The Murder of Laci Peterson, a six-episode series that dropped on the 15th anniversary of the case.

Other documentaries covering the case were released in 2024 with Netflix’s “American Murder: Laci Peterson” and Peacock’s “Face to Face With Scott Peterson.”

TODAY and NBC News contributed to this report.

Crews on Thursday were working to recover the wreckage of a boat that sank in San Francisco Bay earlier in the week and locate the three people who remain missing, police said.

The San Francisco Police Department’s Marine Unit was working with the U.S. Coast Guard and other agencies to locate the 49-foot cabin cruiser, which is believed to be resting on a rocky seabed at an estimated depth of 120 feet, police said.

Up against strong tidal currents, wind, and other weather challenges, dive teams were using boat-mounted sonar platforms and other tools to perform a grid search for the boat, police said.

If the vessel is located, police will work with the Coast Guard and other partner agencies to evaluate options and determine if a safe recovery operation is possible, police said.

David McMurdie with California Recovery Divers said getting to the boat will be a significant challenge, if crews can even locate it.

“You can imagine being under 120 feet of water, and a river is running through that – one direction and then another direction – so it’s enormously dangerous,” McMurdie said.

During a news conference Wednesday, SFPD Special Operations Bureau Cmdr. Brien Hoo said if divers can’t get to the boat, they may use an underwater drone.

“See how the boat is structurally sound and then we could look at the feasibility of working with our partners on raising the boat if needed,” Hoo said.

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Sixteen people were rescued Tuesday afternoon as the cabin cruiser – carrying 20 family members and friends who went out to scatter the ashes of a loved one – was hit by a wave, took on water, listed heavily to one side and rolled over before sinking.

Clifford Boisa died shortly after being pulled out of the water. Three others remained missing as of Thursday.

A body was pulled from the Bay near Treasure Island on Thursday, police said. It wasn’t immediately known if there was a connection to the capsized boat.

While the U.S. Coast Guard suspended its search for the three missing people late Wednesday, the San Francisco Police Department said its teams were still working to locate them.

“Our hearts go out to all the individuals involved in this tragic incident,” police said in a statement Thursday. “The SFPD would like to thank all our partner agencies and members of the public for their quick actions during the rescue and for their tireless work on the response and search for the missing individuals.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Redwood City police arrested a man Wednesday after a fatal hit-and-run collision Tuesday evening.

Lazaro Gregorio Chacajlux, 32, of Redwood City, surrendered on Wednesday to police investigators, according to a police release. He was arrested and booked into the San Mateo County Maguire Correctional Facility on suspicion of felony hit-and-run resulting in death and gross vehicular manslaughter.

On Tuesday evening, a Jeep with a 36-year-old passenger was traveling south on Hudson Street when it was allegedly sideswiped by Chacajlux in a white Ford pickup truck, police said. The truck was exiting a driveway behind the Shell gas station at the intersection of Hudson Street and Woodside Road.

After the collision, police said the driver of the Jeep pulled over and stopped the vehicle to exchange information, while Chacajlux fled the scene in the truck without stopping.

The 36-year-old Jeep passenger pursued Chacajlux’s truck on foot and caught up to it when traffic slowed on Woodside Road. The Jeep passenger grabbed onto the truck in attempt to stop it, while Chacajlux accelerated the vehicle. The passenger then fell from the truck and was run over by it, police said.

Redwood City police, fire and medical personnel responded to the 800 block of Woodside Road on Tuesday at 7:41 p.m. regarding a fatal vehicle collision.

Upon arrival on scene, Chacajlux’s whereabouts were unknown, and the 36-year-old man required immediate aid and life saving measures. He was pronounced dead at the scene, and the San Mateo County Coroner’s Office had not released the man’s identity as of Thursday morning.

Redwood City police detectives gathered surveillance video, followed leads and interviewed surrounding witnesses. A police drone also eventually located Chacajlux’s abandoned Ford pickup truck a short distance from the scene and it was seized by police as evidence.

Police said anyone with information regarding the fatal collision is asked to contact the Redwood City Police Department at 650-780-7100.

Two of the three people who remain missing after the boat they were on capsized in San Francisco Bay Tuesday afternoon have been identified.

Family members onboard the 49-foot cabin cruiser, Volare, that sank on Tuesday identified Carol Boisa and Jackie Boisa as two of three victims still missing in the San Francisco Bay near Alcatraz after the vessel was hit by a wave and quickly started taking on water, according to people who were on board.

Family members onboard the 49-foot cabin cruiser, Volare, that sank on Tuesday identified Carol Boisa and Jackie Boisa as two of three victims still missing in the San Francisco Bay near Alcatraz after the vessel was hit by a wave and quickly started taking on water, according to people who were on board.

Clifford Boisa was the first person confirmed dead. Jackie was his wife, and Carol was his sister.

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Clifford was initially rescued with 16 others but died minutes later. The third missing victim was a friend of the family, whose identity is unknown at this time. Clifford’s dog also died.

Ralph Boisa said his extended family and a few close friends were on his younger brother’s boat Tuesday afternoon to celebrate the life of his daughter who died over a decade ago and was in her 30s.

“We’ve gone through a lot of tragedy over the years,” said Boisa, who lost his other daughter in 1995. He lives in Washington and couldn’t make it for the excursion.

U.S. Coast Guard crews suspended a search for the missing people late Wednesday.

“Suspending a search is one of the hardest parts of our job and our condolences are with the families of all involved,” U.S. Coast Guard Captain Jared S. Toczko said in a statement.

Crews searched more than 814 square miles, according to the Coast Guard, and suspended their search “pending further developments.”

Toczko previously said he would not dismiss the possibility that those missing could still be alive, though he also said some could have been trapped inside the three-deck, 49-foot cabin cruiser.

“We do know individuals were in the main deck and potentially below deck,” he said. Witnesses described seeing people pounding on glass windows, trapped as the boat sank.

Crews have identified the location the boat sank but have yet to determine how deep it sank, Toczko said.

The San Francisco Fire Department has a new fire engine thanks to a donation from Pacific Gas and Electric Company.

SFFD and PG&E announced the donation during a news conference Thursday.

Fire officials said the new engine will respond to structure fires, wildfires, rescue operations and other natural disasters.

Following the announcement, SFFD and PG&E held a joint training exercise on Treasure Island to improve coordination and safety during electrical incidents, such as the December blackout caused by an equipment fire at a PG&E substation.

PG&E said the fire engine was donated through the city’s behested payment process, which allows money or goods to be donated to a city department or nonprofit at the direction of a city leader for governmental or charitable purposes.

PG&E anticipates power will be restored to regions in or near the Bay Area by Thursday afternoon that were affected by planned outages, the utility said.

PG&E implements what it calls Public Safety Power Shutoffs to power down equipment in areas where there are weather conditions that could spark wildfires.

On Wednesday and into Thursday, shutoffs occurred in nine counties affecting about 5,200 customers, including Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Monterey and San Joaquin counties.

On Thursday morning, PG&E began issuing weather all-clear notices for most of these counties, the utility said, which means crews can begin patrols to inspect equipment for any wind-related damage and make necessary repairs.

Once equipment is deemed safe, power will be restored to those areas. In the Bay Area, PG&E expects most people will have their power restored by Thursday afternoon, which means 2,022 customers in Marin County, 80 customers in Alameda County, and 70 customers in Contra Costa County.

PG&E will notify customers with updates, according to spokesperson Megan McFarland.

A 38-year-old San Jose man was arrested earlier this month on suspicion of placing a hidden camera inside a public restroom at a downtown coffee shop, police said Thursday.

David Perales allegedly installed the hidden camera in the bathroom at a coffee shop along the 100 block of East Santa Clara Street on June 9, according to police. A coffee shop employee found the camera on the same day and reported the discovery to police.

Detectives, with the help of the police department’s Real Time Intelligence Center and automated license plate readers, identified Perales as the primary suspect and obtained an arrest warrant, police said.

Perales was arrested in San Jose on July 2 and booked into Santa Clara County Main Jail for invasion of privacy, according to police.

The 2025 death of a woman following her arrest by Brentwood police officers has been ruled accidental by a coroner’s inquest, the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday.

An inquest is a process separate from a medical examiner’s probe into an in-custody death and is when a jury reviews witness testimony and determines the manner of the cause of an individual’s death.

“The finding of the jury is that the manner of death is accident,” said the sheriff’s office on Wednesday.

On Sept. 26, 2025, 72-year-old Yolanda Ramirez was arrested by Brentwood Police Officers Aaron Peachman and Danielle Tjhia following a dispute with her sister. One week later, she died.

According to the footage, Ramirez, who suffered from diabetes, was allegedly forcibly pushed into the back of a police vehicle by officers after hitting her head on the car, according to a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by Ramirez’s family in January.

After being left alone for 20 minutes, body camera footage allegedly shows Ramirez was found barely conscious and slumped over when officers returned to check on her. She died following emergency surgery for brain bleed on Oct. 3.

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According to the sheriff’s office, jurors were advised to choose between four possible rulings: Accident, suicide, natural causes and “at the hands of another person, other than by accident.”

Jurors found that Ramirez’s death happened by accident and was a possible byproduct of someone’s action.

Melissa Nold, attorney for Ramirez’s family, said that she’s pleased with the outcome and hopes to see the district attorney pursue charges against Peachman and Tjhia.

“With natural causes, it’s almost impossible to file a charge,” she said. “The accidental finding still gives us something for the district attorney to use. You can be held liable.”

A coroner’s report released in 2025 concluded that Ramirez died of natural causes, not an accident, according to Nold.

Following the coroner’s autopsy, the family ordered a second, independent autopsy funded by the Colin Kaepernick Foundation, which pays for medical examinations of people who have died after police encounters. That autopsy determined Ramirez died of injuries during the arrest, said Nold.

It may end up being the most expensive drone flight in California history.

Back in July 2021, an unidentified drone hovered over the Dixie fire origin, just long enough to ground air crews as they were starting to make headway. Now, PG&E wants regulators to allow it to charge nearly $700 million in claims for a fire its equipment started, saying the drone is responsible for the ensuing fire damage.

“It came at the wrong time,” said Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey, whose office led a multi-county state probe of the fire that broke out on July 13 but raged for weeks. 

“It was getting on towards evening and a drone showed up,” Ramsey said in a recent interview. “The policy, appropriately so, of Cal Fire is when there’s a drone or something obstructing their flight path, they have to call the flight off.”

With air crews grounded to avoid hitting the drone, nightfall came, and winds picked up, Ramsey remembered. “We had our second largest wildfire in United States history.”

What was a two-acre fire eventually mushroomed to nearly one million acres, leveling more than 1,000 buildings. The total cost was put at $1.8 billion.

Cal Fire’s final report blamed PG&E for failing to cut down a diseased tree that fell on a power line. Ramsey says Cal Fire officials told him that were initially confident they could put out the fire, before the drone showed up, hovered a few moments, then left, leaving air crews helpless as darkness fell.

Five years later, just who was flying the drone remains a mystery.  But its role in hindering the fire response is being considered by state regulators in deciding whether PG&E, or ratepayers, will have to pay nearly $700 million dollars in remaining damage claims.

PG&E’s insurance previously paid $500 million in damages and the state’s wildfire fund has accounted for $600 million in claims, according to the utility. 

In a filing with the Public Utilities Commission – the state agency that regulates rates, PG&E notes that a state law allows them to charge ratepayers for fires fueled by “factors beyond their control.”  Factors like that drone.

In the filing, the utility says the “premature grounding” of the air attack due to the drone, “impeded early fire-suppression efforts, enabling a relatively small fire to spread out of control.”

PG&E would not comment on the pending regulatory filing but stressed it was found to be a “prudent operator” in the timespan before the fire, having adopted various fire-risk cutting measures. The utility said it was, under the law, to seek rate hikes to cover costs.

“The amount PG&E requests in the application reflects the cost of providing utility services, particularly in areas with heightened wildfire risk,” the utility said in a statement.

While he understands the drone likely hindered the firefight, Ramsey rejects the logic behind PG&E’s regulatory filing.

“I’m very disappointed in PG&E for doing such an argument,” the veteran prosecutor said. “That’s like saying: ‘Okay, there’s a fire and unfortunately the fire engine gets a flat tire and can’t get there in time and the fire gets away — and so therefore, the person that sets the fire shouldn’t be responsible for the fire.’’’

“That is insane, both morally, logically, and legally,” Ramsey concluded. 

What makes the argument so troubling, Ramsey says, is that the utility had been making progress over the last five years in showing its commitment to safety and change.

Health officials are still investigating a multi-state outbreak of cyclosporiasis, a parasitic illness that can cause prolonged, severe diarrhea.

The CDC says more than 1,600 cases have been confirmed, with another 5,100 under investigation, for a total of nearly 7,000 possible cases in 34 states.

Although California is part of those 34 states, state health officials said they aren’t seeing an increase in cases. On the other hand, Michigan has reported the largest number of illnesses.

Maria Aguilo was one of those cases. She says she started feeling sick in late June. After multiple doctor visits and tests, she was finally diagnosed with cyclosporiasis almost three weeks later. She’s now on antibiotics and recovering.

“I suddenly started having uncontrollable diarrhea, nausea and vomiting. I also had really intense stomach cramps and pain,” she said. “It took 18 days of me having every single symptom until I was able to get a diagnosis and start treatment.”

“I was in the bathroom maybe between six to eight times an hour,” she continued.

As investigators search for the source, Michigan health officials say there’s a strong early signal pointing to lettuce.

Aguilo says she still doesn’t know exactly where she was exposed.

“I have no idea. The only two things I constantly eat are bagged romaine lettuce hearts when I make salads, and I usually have strawberries every breakfast,” she said.

UCSF Infectious Disease Specialist Dr. Peter Chin-Hong says washing produce helps, but it isn’t foolproof.

“Washing is not enough, but it reduces the risk by at least 50%,” he said. “Fruits like oranges, bananas, melons and mangos, they have skin so you take out the skin and you are gonna be at a very low risk.”

The advice from Dr. Chin-Hong: when possible, choose fruits you can peel. If you’re buying lettuce, skip the bagged greens, buy a whole head of lettuce, and remove the outer leaves before eating it.

Thousands of Pacific Gas and Electric customers in the Bay Area were without power Thursday morning due to Public Safety Power Shutoffs initiated by the utility. PG&E said the PSPS was carried out to prevent wildfire, citing the risk of high winds and dry conditions.

Here is the breakdown of customers impacted by the PSPS within the Bay Area, according to PG&E:

• San Francisco: 1.
• Peninsula: 1.
• East Bay: 1505.
• South Bay: 17.
• North Bay: 2,052.

In a neighborhood off of Kirker Pass Road, just past the Concord Pavilion, neighbors said their power went off at around 3 p.m. in their area. PG&E anticipates power will be restored to regions in or near the Bay Area by Thursday afternoon that were affected by planned outages, the utility said.

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Unlike previous outages that have happened in the area, neighbors said they did get text alerts from PG&E in advance that this outage would be coming. Many neighbors suspect large power lines on a nearby grassy hillside could present a fire risk.

Several recalled a similar outage that lasted for more than a day a couple of years ago.

“It’s a common thing for this particular area. I understand the need for safety, I appreciate that concern,” said Brandon Stracener, whose home was without power Wednesday afternoon and evening.

“There is an impression, I think, here that anytime there’s a five-mile-an-hour or higher wind, PG&E panics and shuts the power off. And I have to wonder if there are other things they could be doing to make things safer that require a little bit more investment in energy,” Stracener continued. Stracener was considering a late-night drive back to his office to complete the work he couldn’t do at home without power.

PG&E said it works to limit shutoffs to only the areas where conditions make them necessary.

“So we want to, again, make sure that we’re only shutting off power where we need to. And each of those locations has a different shutoff time based on the unsafe weather that’s forecasted,” said Dave Canny, PG&E Vice President for the North Coast Region, at a press conference earlier in the day on Wednesday.

But for the people who are experiencing the shutoffs, that does change the fact that they had to face a hot summer afternoon and night without power.

PG&E does list resource centers that are open for impacted residents to go to for ice and to charge their devices. However, neighbors in Concord felt frustrated that their nearest options were to go to Tracy or to Mill Valley, both more than 40 miles away.

PG&E also initiated Public Safety Power Shutoffs back in May of this year, which impacted hundreds of customers in Contra Costa County.

Agricultural officials hit San Jose Wednesday, trying to retrieve about 1,300 grapevine plants purchased at Costco that may be infested by the “glassy-winged sharpshooter” insect.

Agricultural workers were once again going door-to-door, this time in San Jose, to the homes of people who bought some of the 1300 grapevine plants from Costco.

As in south county, workers are leaving bags with instructions for scheduled pickups.

“There’s a much higher density of people here who own the plants. So, we’ve got a lot more people in this area that we have to get to, to send out this information so we can get these plants back,” Associate Biologist Standards Specialist Vivian Volpe said.

The plants are being examined in a lab at the Agricultural Division offices. Researchers are looking for the glassy-winged sharpshooter, including the type of eggs observed under a microscope. The dark spots are the eyes of the insect.

 The main concern is that the pest can carry “pierce’s disease”, the real danger to crops.

“It’s not just grapevines alone that they infest. They can also go to, say, a citrus, to local trees like the crape myrtle. There are myriads of different other types of plants and trees that they can infest and harbor and stay there. And then, those plants can become carriers of the disease. So, if left unchecked, they can spread and keep spreading,” Agricultural Biologist Khoi Nguyen Said.

Agricultural crews were out in Gilroy again on Wednesday collecting bags people left out after being notified Monday.

The deputy agricultural commissioner says they’re making good progress, but there will be more to do even after all the plants have been collected.

“The next phase from that would be a ‘monitoring phase’ where we would be placing glassy-winged sharpshooter traps at regular intervals throughout the county to detect any insects that would have come off of the grapevines and gotten out in the community,” SCC Deputy Agricultural Commissioner John Sorfleet said.

One person who turned in their plant was relieved.

“I was worried about all the plants. It can go around the block,” Gilroy resident Angelica Sanchez said.

It will take at least a couple of months to complete retrieving all the grapevines. The Agricultural Division is asking anyone who bought the grapevine plants but has not been contacted to please call their office.

On Tuesday, when a vessel capsized in the San Francisco Bay and started sinking, nearby captains and crew members rushed towards the emergency, pulling people from the water, throwing life jackets to survivors and helping before first responders could reach everyone.

A family memorial became a desperate fight for survival as nearby captains dropped everything and raced toward the sinking boat off Alcatraz Island.

“Our guys, being there, being ready, helping out. It’s what we do out there. We take care of the Bay,” said Erik Ostrander. “Everyone went there and started providing help.”

Among them, Captain Aaron Anfinson and crewmember Jeff DeJung. They were in the middle of a private cruise with 32 passengers on board when they turned their boat toward the emergency.

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“I had my crewmember Jeff grab the fire hose and told my passengers to get inside,” Aaron Anfinson said. “As we were going there, I called the Coast Guard, told them about it. They had people there pretty quickly after we showed up.”

Before rescue crews could reach everyone, Anfinson and his crew started getting life-saving equipment into the water.

“I didn’t see a life raft anywhere, didn’t see many people with life jackets, so I told Jeff to get life jackets for people on board,” Anfinson said.

One woman was struggling to stay above the water.

“I threw the life ring to her. She was able to grab onto it and we pulled her in and right over there, on the side of the boat, we can open up that railing there, and we used the swim ladder and we used all sorts of things, not normally emergency-related, and she was able to climb up the ladder, and we got her onto the boat,” DeJung said.

“She was bleeding quite a bit. So, we brought her on board, used the ladder to get her on the side of the boat,” Anfinson said.

Despite the quick actions of nearby boaters and first responders, one person died and three others remain missing.

It’s something Anfinson says is still difficult to accept.

“It’s very sad. We did what we could, but it’s very unfortunate,” Anfinson said.

For everyone who answered the call, the rescue may have ended on the water, but what they witnessed followed them home Tuesday night.

“I gave my mom a big hug when I got home,” DeJung said.

The Coast Guard says crews will continue searching through this evening for the three people still missing, using boats, helicopters and aircraft across San Francisco Bay.

They also thanked the nearby captains and crews who rushed in to help—saying their quick actions played an important role in rescuing so many people.

Thousands of licensed drivers in California are being required to retake their knowledge tests because the California Department of Motor Vehicles says it found “irregularities” in their test results and suspects them of cheating, officials said today.

Last month, the DMV sent letters to some 11,000 drivers saying that their written test results showed “irregularities.” The department did not provide specifics about what problems were found with the tests.

Those receiving the letters were instructed to return to a DMV office and retake their knowledge test within 30 days. Individuals who do not complete and pass the retest will have their driver’s license cancelled, the DMV said.

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The DMV indicated that some individuals may have attempted to cheat during the testing process.

“The California DMV has identified irregularities in certain driver knowledge test results that may indicate instances of cheating,” a department spokesperson said.

Through “routine internal monitoring,” the department identified patterns in driver knowledge test results indicating that “some individuals may have attempted to circumvent the testing process using various cheating methods,” the representative said.

The DMV emphasized that although certain test results have been identified as “potentially problematic,” receipt of a notice alone does not indicate a final determination that cheating occurred in that instance.

“Nonetheless, these irregularities are test taker related and not the result of an internal DMV technical issue, or involvement of artificial intelligence,” the spokesperson said. “Ensuring the integrity of the knowledge testing process is essential to public safety and to confirm that drivers understand California’s rules of the road.”

Several cases have been referred to county district attorneys for prosecution, according to the DMV.

“DMV is not sharing additional information at this time, so as not to reveal investigative methods and protect the integrity of the investigative process,” the department said Tuesday.

A passenger who died after being on a vessel that capsized and sank Tuesday in the San Francisco Bay was identified Wednesday by the San Francisco Medical Examiner’s Office.

Clifford Boisa, 79, of Sutter County, was identified as the victim of the sinking near Alcatraz Island. Family said Boise would’ve been 80 on Sept. 5.

According to Calpers, Boisa was a budget analyst for the Department of Fish and Wildlife and retired in 2001.

Clifford Boisa was the older brother of the man who owned the boat, John Boisa. John sent the following statement to NBC Bay Area:

“I loved Clifford with all of my heart. In addition to being a brother, he was a mentor and role model to me growing up. I cherished him, and much of the person I am was formed by his example. The loss of him is a crushing anguish.”

The Boisa family provided the following statement Wednesday to NBC Bay Area:

“We and many families have suffered a horrific loss. We deeply appreciate the outpouring of condolences and prayers. At this incredibly difficult time, we ask that you respect our privacy so that we can process and grieve.”

On Tuesday at 3:37 p.m., multiple 911 callers reported a vessel in distress in the Bay. The U.S. Coast Guard, as well as police and fire departments from San Francisco, Oakland, Richmond and Tiburon, responded with ground and water assets.

At the scene, the vessel was identified as a 50-foot cabin cruiser out of Stockton, according to the San Francisco Fire Department. A total of 20 people were aboard, with 17 being rescued and three individuals that remain missing. Boisa was one of the 17 found during the water rescue.

A boat tracking site and a post on social media showed the boat was in McCovey Cove for at least part of the Giants game on Sunday.

According to the San Francisco Fire Department, Boisa was rescued from the water but required immediate life-saving measures. He ultimately succumbed to his injuries and died Tuesday.

The fire department said a dog also died aboard the vessel, and public safety agencies are continuing to search for the three missing individuals.

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San Francisco may become the first city in the Bay Area to license cannabis cafes that will allow consumers to enjoy food, beverages, and live entertainment while they smoke and vape onsite.

The final passage of the ordinance at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting came after about a year of haggling by the local measure’s author, District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, and follows an even lengthier effort at the state level to allow the cafes.

The ordinance still needs the signature of Mayor Daniel Lurie before it becomes law.

The rule will allow businesses that are already licensed to produce, process or sell cannabis to offer food and beverages to be consumed onsite after obtaining a permit from the Department of Health but will not allow regular restaurants, bars or cafes to start offering cannabis products.

Four supervisors opposed the measure, including Myrna Melgar, who said she liked the idea but would not support rolling back what she said was progress on smoke-free indoor spaces and workplaces.

“I think that indoor smoke whether it’s cannabis or tobacco is a serious public health issue,” she said during the first vote on the ordinance last week.

Besides Melgar, Supervisors Alan Wong, Chyenne Chen, and Connie Chan also voted against the move.

The inclusion of more protections for workers was one of the reasons Gov. Gavin Newsom originally opposed the idea, vetoing a state bill in 2023 that would have allowed the cafes, which often evoke comparisons to businesses in Amsterdam that are popular with tourists and cannabis users looking to socialize.

Newsom eventually signed a revised version in 2024, Assembly Bill 1775, that added protections for workers’ health.

The first bill, and its successor, was authored by Assemblymember Matt Haney, D-San Francisco. After the first one was vetoed, Haney added provisions for businesses to provide N95 or other masks for workers who requested them and for business owners to identify the risk of smoke exposure in health and safety materials to employees, insurers and health regulators.

Haney, who is also a former member of the Board of Supervisors, said he hoped the businesses would also spur an increase in nightlife activity.

“Cannabis cafes were always about giving people a place to enjoy legal cannabis in the company of others while supporting small businesses, nightlife, and local culture,” Haney said in a statement. “This is exactly what we envisioned when I authored the bill to make it possible for cities to legalize cannabis cafes, and it’s exciting to see San Francisco lead the way in making that vision a reality.”

Current rules in the city allowed onsite consumption of packaged cannabis edibles in permitted dispensaries but not regular food and drinks such as sodas or pastries that aren’t infused with cannabis.

The new lounges and cafes will allow food and beverages to be prepared and sold onsite, including products infused and not infused with THC, the psychoactive compound in cannabis that gives users the feeling of intoxication.

Unlike Amsterdam, San Francisco’s onsite consumption lounges will not be permitted to sell alcohol.

The city has 66 active licenses for retail cannabis stores. Only existing businesses will be allowed to apply for a permit for the new consumption spaces for a period of one year, which Mandelman said was to give them a fair chance to create new revenue streams after struggling through a tough economic environment.

The state eliminated several taxes and fees on the product following a steep drop in prices in 2021. Mandelman led a previous effort to suspend the city’s business tax on cannabis stores for 10 years to try to stabilize the market.

William Dolan, CEO of HYRBA Dispensary, in the Sunset District, said he looked forward to transforming the cannabis business into a more hospitality-focused enterprise.

“This legislation clears a path for our industry to create a full-service cannabis hospitality experience, diversify our businesses, and provide our customers with safe, highly regulated spaces where they can enjoy food and beverages alongside responsible cannabis consumption,” Dolan said in a statement.

Surf’s up on Lake Tahoe.

Mike Love, a founding member of the Beach Boys and lead singer on such hits as “Surfin’ U.S.A.” and “Little Deuce Coupe,” has listed his palatial Lake Tahoe estate for $43 million.

The 85-year-old, who formed the group in 1961 with first cousin Brian Wilson, Wilson’s brothers Carl and Dennis, and Wilson’s friend Al Jardine, has lived in Nevada home for more than four decades.

Tucked in the north shore Tahoe, the Incline Village estate features a whopping 10 bedrooms and 15 bathrooms across 18,922 square feet on a 2.5-acre lot. It is surrounded by six acres of preserved land the family placed into a conservation to prevent future development, securing the home’s ability to maintain the privacy and natural environment as it exists today.

That decision secures the setting, maintaining the privacy and natural environment as they exist today, with panoramic views of Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada forming a constant backdrop.

The stone-covered mansion includes a recording studio, home theater, wine cellar, a poker room, an in-home sauna and gym, and a pool with with panoramic views of Lake Tahoe.

“Much of Love’s work took shape within these walls, in a setting built to support the creative process rather than separate from it,” listing agent Jeannette Harpole of Habitat Nevada said in a press release of the homes pitched ceilings and acoustics.

The home also features elements from Eastern philosophy and meditation practices throughout, from a hand-carved Ganesh at the entry to a Hindu statuary and a celestial dome ceiling. The front door was commissioned by Love and created by southern Indian temple artisans and blessed by a temple priest.

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A gun was stolen from an unmarked police vehicle parked outside an officer’s home in San Jose, police said.

The department said someone broke into the car and stole the firearm.

The department declined to identify the officer, but the assistant chief confirmed to NBC Bay Area that is was his vehicle and firearm. He said the gun was in a lockbox, which had been broken into.

“If it’s a vehicle, it has to be out of sight, it has to be in a locked container that is permanently affixed to the vehicle with a substantial lock,” public safety consultant and retired San Jose police detective Michael Leininger said. “The fact that this was stolen, I question how substantial it was. If it was substantial, I don’t think they should have been able to remove it.”

No arrests had been made as of Tuesday.

U.S. Coast Guard crews have suspended a search late Wednesday for three people missing after a boat carrying 20 family members and friends as part of a memorial service capsized a day earlier in the cold, choppy waters of San Francisco Bay near Alcatraz Island, authorities said.

U.S. Coast Guard Captain Jared S. Toczko said rescuers have cumulatively scoured 950 square nautical miles (3,260 square kilometers) and the search continued until sundown on Wednesday.

Toczko would not dismiss the possibility that those missing could still be alive, though he also said some could have been trapped inside the three-deck, 49-foot (15-meter) cabin cruiser.

“We do know individuals were in the main deck and potentially below deck,” he said.

But now that the search has been suspended, the U.S. Coast Guard says recovering the boat is the next step in the investigation. Because of the depth of the water, that process could take time and may require an underwater drone before investigators can determine exactly what caused the boat to capsize.

After the search was suspended, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie released the following statement:

“The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search and rescue mission for the three missing people following yesterday’s boat accident in the San Francisco Bay. My heart goes out to their loved ones. This accident is heartbreaking, and we grieve alongside those affected.

I want to recognize SFFD, SFPD, the U.S. Coast Guard, and our partners from Oakland, Marin, and across the region. Our first responders have conducted an intensive operation over more than 24 hours using all manner of resources and technology, even with support from private citizens, to try to find all individuals involved. Because of their dedicated work, 16 people were saved after the boat capsized. I want to again extend my gratitude to the San Francisco Human Services Agency and the American Red Cross for supporting the survivors.”

One person was pulled from the water but later died, and 16 others were rescued Tuesday afternoon after the boat took on water, listed heavily to one side and then rolled over before sinking, Toczko said.

The passengers on board were all close friends and family members, he said. A dog also died.

Crews have identified the location the boat sank but have yet to determine how deep it sank, Toczko said.

Once the boat is located, officials will send either divers or an underwater drone to determine if it’s feasible to salvage it, said San Francisco Police Commander Brien Hoo. If the boat is under 120 feet (37 meters) of water, it would be difficult for divers to get to it, he said.

Witnesses reported “rough seas,” San Francisco Fire Department Chief Dean Crispen said, and rescuers said swells reached up to 5 feet (1.5 meters). Marine weather conditions, however, didn’t warrant a small craft advisory from the National Weather Service.

Sudden immersion in water under 60 degrees Fahrenheit (15 degrees Celsius) can lead to cold water shock, a condition where people lose dexterity in minutes. That can be dangerous or deadly when trying to escape a sinking watercraft.

Man who died after boat capsized in San Francisco Bay identified

The person who died was identified as Clifford Joseph Boisa, 79, from rural Sutter County in the Sacramento Valley, the San Francisco medical examiner said.

The Boisa family provided the following statement Wednesday to NBC Bay Area:

“We and many families have suffered a horrific loss. We deeply appreciate the outpouring of condolences and prayers. At this incredibly difficult time, we ask that you respect our privacy so that we can process and grieve.”

Clifford Boisa was a budget analyst for the Department of Fish and Wildlife, and retired in 2001, according to Calpers. He also served as a Sutter County reserve deputy sheriff from 1987 until 2011.

Clifford is the older brother of the man who owned the boat, John Boisa, who provided the following statement to NBC Bay Area:

“I loved Clifford with all of my heart. In addition to being a brother, he was a mentor and role model to me growing up. I cherished him, and much of the person I am was formed by his example. The loss of him is a crushing anguish.”

What we know about the boat that capsized in the San Francisco Bay

Fire department spokesperson Lt. Mariano Elias said the 50-foot vessel, named Volare, was registered out of Stockton, which sits at the eastern edge of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

Tockzo said there were life jackets onboard the boat and that some people were rescued wearing them, though witnesses said several people were in the water without them.

“The wind was coming underneath the Golden Gate and blowing toward Alcatraz,” Lt. Joseph England of the Richmond Police Department, who responded to the scene, said Wednesday. “If you have a smaller vessel and you don’t know what you’re doing and you’re hitting those swells sideways, it can lead to disaster.”

England said no one was aboard the boat by the time his department’s marine unit got there. The crew found the vessel nearly submerged, with cushions, chairs and other debris floating nearby.

Like a ‘Titanic’ scene, rescuer says

Two rescuers who jumped into action while fishing for halibut said the boat that sank was more than capable of being out in the bay. Justin Marceline and Michael Montoya said they saw what they thought was smoke and arrived to find the vessel halfway submerged.

“We just started yanking people out,” Marceline said. At least two people bobbed in the water without life jackets, while others clung to a windsurfer’s board.

Marceline could see people trapped inside the rapidly sinking boat through its windows. He threw lead fishing weights to survivors in the water, hoping they could smash the glass, but they were too weak.

“It was like Titanic in real life,” he said. “There was stuff everywhere. People were banging on the glass.”

Montoya estimated they pulled eight or nine people aboard, including the captain, before first responders arrived.

High-tech tools used in search

The U.S. Coast Guard was leading the search effort with a cutter named the Barracuda, other vessels and a fixed-wing aircraft, Petty Officer Kenneth Wiese said Wednesday.

The Coast Guard said it would suspend active search operations at sunset Wednesday.

“We want to consider every single option,” Wiese said.

Search teams were using thermal imaging, tide prediction and modeling to guide their efforts, the fire department said Wednesday. By Tuesday evening, authorities had been searching the open ocean west of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Where was the boat coming from?

A marine tracking site shows the Volare left the Village West Marina in Stockton on Saturday on its way to the Bay. It was not known how many people were onboard during that portion of the trip.

The boat was also in McCovey Cove for at least part of the San Francisco Giants game on Sunday, according to a boat tracking website and a post on social media. The vessel also showed up in an image of the stadium during the broadcast.

The boat days later departed near the St. Francis Yacht Club in San Francisco, passed under the Golden Gate Bridge twice and visited Angel Island State Park in the bay before the apparent return trip, according to the ship-tracking website VesselFinder. Angel Island, the largest natural island in the bay, is known for sweeping views of the city.

“Our hearts go out to the friends and family of those on board the boat that sunk off the waters off Alcatraz Island,” the St. Francis Yacht Club said in a statement to NBC Bay Area. “While the boat did not embark from St. Francis Yacht Club, nor were there members on board, we share this Bay and therefore, understand the weight of this tragedy.”

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1 dead, 3 missing after 50-foot cabin cruiser capsizes near Alcatraz

Dispatch audio of initial response to sinking boat near Alcatraz Island

Initial callers reported what appeared to be smoke coming from the boat, but San Francisco police officers who first reached the vessel determined it was steam.

San Francisco fire officials confirmed Wednesday that the boat that capsized on the Bay was equipped with life vests – although dispatchers quoted witnesses as indicating some people in the water may have been holding onto them instead of wearing them at the time they were spotted.

Elias said dispatch records indicate that about 10 minutes after the initial call, a dispatch note indicates that a witness saw “a cluster” of four people in the water holding onto a sail board.

The dispatch notation suggests that they were not using life vests for floatation, according to Elias.

“We did hear that people were holding onto vests, instead of wearing them,” Elias said.

The boat sank about 128 feet down, because it was in a shipping channel, Elias said. He noted that dive teams are typically only allowed to go down about 60 feet into the water, leaving the wreckage of the boat unsearched at this time.

He said salvage crews will ultimately bring up the boat as part of the investigation.

The maximum-security federal prison at Alcatraz Island, which closed more than 60 years ago, was infamously inescapable due to the chilly waters and strong currents that surround “The Rock.” Designed to hold the nation’s intractable criminals, including Al Capone and George “Machine Gun” Kelly, it is now a popular tourist attraction. The island is about a mile off San Francisco.

Associated Press writers Kathy McCormack in Concord, New Hampshire; Ed White in Detroit; Jaimie Ding in Los Angeles; and photographer Noah Berger in San Francisco contributed to this story.

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Some soccer fans paid about $10,000 per seat for the World Cup final but then experienced ticket trouble that left them in limbo.

May Lee’s home is awash in purple – so much so her nickname is “Ms. Purple.”

“I’ve loved purple the majority of my life,” she said. 

But Lee said FIFA kicked her into a gray area.

“It was very frustrating,” she said. 

Lee loves soccer as much as the color purple. She played as a kid and in college. She also attended the World Cup in 1994 and still has her tickets, which were just a tad cheaper than today’s. She read from her stubs: “$27, Brazil versus Russia!” 

Lee is a soccer super fan. She said she had to grab a ticket to this year’s final. So, she dug deep – very deep.

“$10,975 for one ticket,” she said. “It was painful. I didn’t like paying that amount. But, at the same time, if I want to go, I gotta pay. So I did it.”  

She was excited. But one wrinkle: FIFA is delivering tickets on its smartphone app. Lee, however, does not have a smartphone.

“I’m not anti-technology,” she explained. “But I’m pro-privacy.”

Fine print to the rescue. Her $10,000 FIFA receipt said, “If your phone is not compatible with the FWC2026 Mobile Tickets App, please contact our Customer Support team using the contact form.”

“So, I filled it out in May. No response. June, I filled it out again. No response,” she said.  

Lee said she tried again in July. The response was a letter with no answers.

“That’s what then prompted me to reach out to you,” she said. “Because I know you get results.” 

The NBC Responds team called FIFA and scored.

“Funny,” Lee said. ”When you guys got involved, I got an email within a day saying, ‘Go to the box office at the stadium.’”

Responds asked FIFA for a statement about what happened. No response. Responds also shot a note to FIFA’s shuttle bus vendor to make sure their drivers would let Lee ride to the match without a smartphone ticket. They confirmed she’s OK to board the bus. Finally, a green light for Lee and her $10,00 ticket.

“I’m going. I’m so excited,” she said. 

Ken from Los Angeles also paid dearly for two tickets to the final.

“I spent $9,500 each,” he said. “It was a lot.”

Ken said he went onto the ticket resale website Viagogo.com. He paid a seller just shy of $20,000 for two seats in section 101 with a view quite close to the field. 

“If we’re gonna spend that kind of money, we want to be as close to the field as possible and really enjoy the moment,” he said. 

But Ken said the seller delivered tickets in section 350, row 22 – a bird’s eye view. 

“All the way to the top level of the stadium,” he said.” Really…the nosebleed section.” 

Ken protested. Viagogo advertises a guarantee that tickets are ”delivered accurately.” If not, you get replacement tickets or a refund. Ken said Viagogo offered something else. He said a rep said, “You can keep the tickets and we’ll give you a 25% voucher for your next purchase.”

Ken did not want a coupon. He insisted Viagogo replace the good seats he paid almost $20,000 for. Ken said Viagogo then had him return his nosebleed section 350 tickets to the seller. Ken said he immediately saw two seats re-listed in section 101 – for $47,000 per ticket.

“I thought it must be some kind of bait and switch,” he said. 

Ken said he told Viagogo, but nothing happened. He also had no seats and the final was getting close.

He feared of being shutout. So, he contacted NBC Responds.

“Chris, you were able to respond to me the next day,” Ken said. 

Responds contacted Viagogo, which said it owns StubHub. A StubHub rep responded. They did not go into specifics about Ken’s claim that the seller pulled a bait and switch but said, “When sellers misrepresent or mislabel tickets, we investigate and hold them accountable. We take this seriously because it directly harms fans and undermines the trust that makes our marketplace work.” 

The $47,000 seats are now gone. StubHub didn’t disclose if it pulled the listing or if someone bought the tickets. As for Ken, the site said, “Our top priority continues to be getting fans into their matches.” StubHub then delivered for Ken. 

“I thank you for all that happened because the next day I got a call from StubHub saying, ‘Hey, we found replacement tickets,'” Ken said.

Ken and his wife are seated near the goalline, finally getting the once-in-a-lifetime seats they paid almost $20,000 for.

“I can’t thank you enough,” he said. 

A pedestrian died and three people in a car were taken to the hospital following a collision in San Jose Tuesday night, according to police.

The collision happened just before 9 p.m. in the area of Capitol Expressway and Copperfield Drive, police said.

Citing a preliminary investigation, police said a man behind the wheel of a Tesla sedan was heading eastbound on Capitol Expressway, just east of Copperfield Drive, when he hit a man who was crossing Capitol Expressway outside of any marked crosswalk.

The pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police. His identity will be released by the Santa Clara County medical examiner’s office.

The driver and two juveniles in the Tesla were later taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

The driver was cooperative with investigators, according to police.

This marked the 11th pedestrian death in San Jose this year, police said.

One person died Tuesday evening after their vehicle crashed into a light pole and caught fire, authorities said.

The crash occurred about 7:15 p.m. near the 1900 block of Alameda de las Pulgas. San Mateo police said a vehicle was traveling through the intersection of Highway 92 and Alameda de las Pulgas before striking the pole.

The vehicle caught fire after the impact. The only person inside the vehicle was pronounced dead, police reported. The victim’s identity was not immediately available.

Police had urged the public to avoid Alameda de las Pulgas between Highway 92 and 20th Avenue and seek alternate routes due to heavy, toxic smoke in the area.

One person and a dog are dead, and three people remain missing after a three-deck, 50-foot cabin cruiser carrying 20 people sank Tuesday afternoon in the rough, frigid waters of San Francisco Bay near Alcatraz Island.

The passengers, believed to be mostly family members visiting from outside the Bay Area, had chartered the Volare cabin cruiser to hold a memorial service for a loved one.

Emergency crews and good Samaritans pulled 16 survivors from the water, bringing them to shore at Gashouse Cove Marina near the Fort Mason Center. Three of the rescued passengers were taken to a local hospital in stable condition with injuries sustained from falling into the water. They were expected to be released Tuesday evening.

The victim who died was alive when rescue crews plucked him from the water but later succumbed. A dog onboard also died in the wreck. Authorities initially reported 19 people were onboard with two missing but updated the passenger total to 20 during an evening briefing.

San Francisco Fire Lt. Mariano Elias said the emergency call came in just after 3:30 p.m. reporting a vessel in distress about 600 yards from Alcatraz. The boating mishap was initially reported as a fire, but San Francisco Fire Chief Dean Crispen said there was no evidence of that, and no burn injuries were reported.

First responders arrived to find the vessel mostly submerged, with the motor still running and leaking fuel. Crispen said the boat is believed to have launched near the St. Francis Yacht Club, though the club had no immediate information on the incident.

The ensuing search and rescue operation included divers, helicopters, 11 boats, jet skis and several private boaters.

“Right now we are in full rescue mode,” Crispen said Tuesday night. San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie called the massive, multi-agency response an “all-hands-on-deck search and hopefully rescue.”

Mike Montoya and Justin Marceline of the East Bay were on a nearby charter boat and jumped into action as the boat went down. They described a chaotic scene, with only the top deck visible above the water and passengers trapped inside a lower deck.

“There was even people banging at the windows as they were like filing out, and as soon as people were hitting the water, we were just trying to pick them up as fast as we can,” they said. “Some people didn’t even have life vests on and they were drowning.”

James Smith of Berkeley, captain of the charter fishing boat California Dawn, spotted the overturned vessel shortly after passing under the Golden Gate Bridge and arrived just as Coast Guard rescuers got to the scene.

“I’ve been a charter operator for 35-plus years, and it’s pretty horrific anytime you see an accident like this,” Smith said.

Live video from the scene showed a man and a woman wrapped in blankets, sitting on a curb before walking to a nearby ambulance. Survivors were reunited with their families with assistance from the American Red Cross. Crispen noted that families were incredibly upset as they awaited news on the missing.

Multiple agencies, including the Coast Guard, Oakland police, and the Richmond Police Department’s marine unit, assisted in the response.

“The Richmond Police Department remains committed to supporting our partner agencies whenever called upon,” the department said in a statement. “Our thoughts are with the families and loved ones affected by this tragic incident.”

“This is obviously a tragic situation,” San Francisco Supervisor Stephen Sherrill said. “Our thoughts are with the victims and their families.”

Statement from the American Red Cross:

“Our hearts go out to those impacted by the tragic boat incident near Alcatraz in San Francisco. The American Red Cross is working closely with emergency management, local officials and community partners to help ensure those involved receive the care and support they need. The Red Cross supported with immediate needs such as providing dry clothing, food, blankets, and comfort kits. Our Disaster Mental Health and Spiritual Care teams remain available to offer support and care to those affected. We remain committed to working alongside our partners to help meet evolving needs as recovery efforts continue.”

Authorities are expected to provide additional details Wednesday morning as the search mission continues.

What caused the 50-foot cabin cruiser to sink near Alcatraz?

Boating experts are questioning what caused a three-level, 50-foot cabin cruiser carrying 20 people to sink near Alcatraz as first responders continue their search and rescue efforts.

While the exact cause of the incident remains unknown, local boat operators have offered conflicting views on the water conditions in San Francisco Bay when the vessel overturned.

San Francisco Fire Chief Dean Crispen said witnesses described rough seas right before the boat capsized.

“The reports we have from witnesses are that there were rough seas and apparently a vessel began to take on water and was turned over in the bay,” Crispen said.

Charles Jennings, owner of the tour company Bay Voyager, noted that the bay’s waters are unforgiving and said the size of the vessel stood out to him.

“I would be concerned to see a boat of that size out there with that many people in that wind out there,” Jennings said. “If I were to see a boat out there, I’d expect it to be a very hearty vessel or perhaps a good sailboat.”

However, John McNamara, an operator with the Red and White Fleet who was on the bay Tuesday afternoon, said the conditions did not seem extreme and do not entirely explain what happened.

“From spending as much time as I have in the San Francisco Bay, today was not a bad day to be boating,” McNamara said.

McNamara was nearby when the cabin cruiser went down and immediately prepared his crew to assist.

“I directed my crew to put on the man overboard gear in case there were people I needed to pull out,” McNamara said. “As I got closer, I can see people on the water and stuck on the vessel.”

A Coast Guard lieutenant stated that more information about the boat will be released as the situation evolves, but the current focus remains strictly on the search and rescue of the missing passengers.

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A group of 26 Meta employees has sued the company, claiming it used artificial intelligence systems to select people for layoffs, disproportionately targeting those on medical, parental or family leave.

They are among the 8,000 employees, or about 10% of its workforce, Meta said it would lay off in May. The lawsuit filed late Monday in federal court in Oakland, California, claims the company used internal AI systems, keystroke and activity-monitoring data, AI token-usage dashboards and algorithmically assisted performance rankings, among other methods, to determine who would be laid off.

Many of these scores and ratings “by design, cannot be accumulated by an employee who is on protected medical or family leave, or whose output is reduced by a disability,” the lawsuit says. Meta, according to the lawsuit, did not account for protected leave when taking employees’ scores into account and “did not pause the system for the individualized, leave- and accommodation-neutral review that the law requires.”

As a result, people on protected medical or family leave were disproportionately selected for layoffs, the lawsuit says. Each of the 26 anonymous employees in the lawsuit took protected leave and requested or received a reasonable accommodation for disability. Though they have been notified of their layoffs, all 26 remain employed by Meta, with separations set to begin July 22.

Many workers were on parental leave

Many of the employees in the lawsuit took pregnancy or parental leave, during which time they wouldn’t have worked and thus had their measured output reduced. Others took medical leave — one disclosed a “serious health condition and disability” that was approved by Meta’s own provider. But according to the lawsuit, he was “discouraged and deterred from taking that leave by a manager” who warned that doing so would result in his selection for the anticipated layoffs. Meta offered no accommodation for his disability, the lawsuit says.

Meta said in a statement that the claims “lack merit and are not based on facts. Workforce management and organizational decisions were and are made by people, not AI.”

About half the plaintiffs had taken leave for caregiving or pregnancy-related reasons. Eight are women who had taken maternity or pregnancy-related leave, four are men who had taken parental leave and one is a woman who had taken leave to care for a family member and later bereavement leave.

The lawsuit says the layoffs violated several state and federal laws, including the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Pregnancy Discrimination Act and the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act.

Lawsuit cites ‘disparate impact’

The complaint also references “disparate impact liability,” a longstanding civil rights concept that President Donald Trump’s administration moved to abandon. Disparate impact, codified in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, holds that facially neutral policies or practices can be discriminatory if they disproportionately burden a protected class of workers and aren’t necessary for the job.

The Trump administration has ordered federal agencies to deprioritize disparate impact liability enforcement, arguing that its use undermines “meritocracy” and encourages the assumption that any racial or gender imbalance in a workforce is the result of discrimination. The order has led the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to drop discrimination cases on behalf of some workers.

However, the lawsuit against Meta underscores that companies remain vulnerable to disparate impact litigation in the age of AI despite the Trump administration’s efforts to stamp out its enforcement. Workers are still free to pursue such lawsuits on their own if the EEOC rejects their complaints, and several state laws specifically prohibit disparate impact discrimination.

In the case against Meta, lawyers for the plaintiffs argued that the company’s “algorithmically assisted selection process, by systematically recording such absences as reduced performance, falls more heavily on women than on men.” That’s because women disproportionately take pregnancy and caregiving leave, according to the lawyers. The lawsuit cites Title VII’s prohibition on employment practices that have a disparate impact, as well as a landmark 1971 Supreme Court ruling that recognized the doctrine.

The plaintiffs’ lawyers said in a statement that the lawsuit asks for one thing — preserving the status quo to keep the workers employed pending arbitration. That’s because “once these separations are final, the harms are irreversible: employer-subsidized health coverage lost during pregnancy, postpartum recovery, and active medical treatment; time-bound leave rights extinguished; unvested equity forfeited; and immigration consequences triggered.”

A bid to end the biannual practice of changing clocks and make daylight saving time permanent moved one step closer to becoming law on Tuesday.

The House voted 308-117 to pass the bill, known as The Sunshine Protection Act, a day after it cleared a key hurdle in the House Rules Committee. The measure, which has bipartisan support and the backing of President Donald Trump, would allow states to make daylight saving time permanent, with the option to opt out.

The legislation aims to permanently end the twice-annual changing of clocks and establish daylight saving time as the national standard. Supporters of the bill cited economic benefits like boosted tourism and outdoor recreation, while proponents voiced concerns that the measure would negatively impact health.

Daylight saving time — setting the clocks forward one hour during ⁠the summer half of the year — has been in place in nearly all of the ​United States since the 1960s. With the exception of Arizona and Hawaii, most states observe daylight saving time.

The Sunshine Protection Act’s momentum comes after the House Energy and Commerce Committee overwhelmingly passed the measure 48-1 in May. A month prior, Trump had urged Congress to end time changes and “push hard for more daylight at the end of a day.”

Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., who authored the measure, said in a statement Monday that Americans are “tired of the biannual time change.”

“Ending the clock change is a commonsense reform that will improve everyday life for millions of Americans,” he added.

Since the bill passed the House on Tuesday, it now moves to the Senate for a vote. In order for Trump to sign it into law, it must pass both the Senate and the House.

The president has long pushed for an end to time changes, writing in an April Truth Social post that staying on daylight saving time would be “Very popular and, most importantly, no more changing of the clocks, a big inconvenience and, for our government, A VERY COSTLY EVENT!!!”

The Senate voted unanimously in March 2022 to make daylight saving time permanent, but the measure failed to advance in the House. And though polls show most Americans dislike changing their clocks twice a year, the political moves necessary to change the system haven’t succeeded, as opinions on the issue and its potential impacts remain sharply divided.

Supporters of the Sunshine Protection Act say the time shift causes sleep ​disturbances, greater workplace injuries and more car crashes. They also believe brighter evenings would encourage more economic activity during winter and allow kids to be outdoors and physically active for longer hours.

Although the legislation passed the House, it faces opposition from Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark.

Cotton has said the Sunrise Protection Act would result in “absurdly late” winter sunrises and force children to “walk to school in the pitch black” in much ​of the country. The lawmaker previously thwarted a bipartisan group of senators who sought unanimous consent to pass a similar measure in 2025.

Springing one hour ahead is also “not good for brain health,” according to sleep experts. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the American Medical Association and the National Sleep Foundation have all called for year-round standard time, which they say aligns the body with natural daylight.

Many states, however, are ready to “ditch the switch.” Nineteen states have already passed legislation to make daylight saving time permanent should Congress allow it, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Other states have introduced legislation calling for permanent standard time.

Buchanan, who has put forward the bill regularly since 2018, proposed it again this year. The plan is popular in the lawmaker’s home ​state because it would allow more evening hours to play on ​golf courses ⁠and sports fields.

The ⁠United ​States used year-round daylight saving time during World War ​II. It was reenacted by President Richard Nixon in 1974 to reduce energy use following the country’s oil crisis. But that stint proved unpopular and brief — it was repealed by Congress later that year.

Making daylight saving time permanent would mean the sun rises around 9 a.m. in Detroit for a while during the winter. Staying on standard time year round means the sun would be up at 4:11 a.m. in Seattle in June.

Jay Pea, president of Save Standard Time, an organization devoted to switching to standard time for good, weighed in on the longlasting time change debate, saying, “There’s no law we can pass to move the sun to our will” — although that hasn’t deterred lawmakers from toying with the idea.

La Furia Roja are in the World Cup final for just the second time in history.

Spain on Tuesday took down France 2-0 in the first semifinal in Dallas Stadium thanks to goals from Mikel Oyarzabal and Pedro Porro in each half.

Kylian Mbappe and Co. were stunningly held to a clean sheet despite their blistering attack scoring plenty of goals entering the showdown. Unai Simon and Spain have only conceded one goal this summer, which came in the 2-1 quarterfinal win vs. Belgium.

Both teams put out strong starting lineups, with Spain being unchanged from the quarterfinals and France bringing in Bradley Barcola in attack and Aurelien Tchouameni in midfield.

After a cautious yet aggressive start from both, Spain were awarded a penalty after a foul by left-back Lucas Digne in the 19th minute. Digne caught Lamine Yamal after attempting a clearance but he missed the ball completely, catching the Spanish winger instead.

Digne was not given a yellow card. Left-back was a position of worry for France coming into this matchup given Yamal’s threat.

Striker Mikel Oyarzabal stepped up and drilled it home past goalie Mike Maignan a few minutes later, netting his fifth goal of the 2026 tournament.

It then went from bad to worse for France in a matter of minutes. Star center-back William Saliba went down with what appeared to be a back injury, with Maxence Lacroix coming in in the 30th minute.

Saliba of Premier League champions Arsenal came into the tournament with back issues but played with it. He formed an elite partnership with Dayot Upamecano but couldn’t continue at a crucial time.

The only separator between the two nations at halftime had been the Oyarzabal penalty goal, while Fabian Ruiz came close for Spain on a well-worked tiki-taka move.

At the interval, La Furia Roja had 0.99 expected goals across five shots, per data-tracking platform FotMob. Penalties account for about 0.7. They also had 56% possession of the ball with Rodri dominating the midfield. Les Bleus posted just 0.04 expected goals on only two shots. 

Spain then made it 2-0 in the 58th minute as France still couldn’t find any rhythm in attack.

Right-back Pedro Porro started the move in the right half-space by linking up with Dani Olmo. Olmo played it back and Porro slotted it home for a mesmerizing play.

Yamal later thought he had a third when he got in behind Digne and finished past Maignan, but it was called back for a tight offsides.

Spain held onto win without facing too much threat from France, a shocking narrative turn given how well the attack performed coming into the game. Barcola and Olise came off early for Desire Doue and Rayan Cherki, but the changes made no difference. Ousmane Dembele, the 2025 Ballon d’Or winner, played the full game but didn’t add much threat, either.

So, in the first real test France faced after breezing through the tournament, it could not survive at the most vital moment.

La Furia Roja ended the game with 1.63 expected goals across 10 total shots. France had just 0.3 on 10 shots, too. The possession battle ended up slightly evening out, with Spain edging it 51-49 as France got on the ball more.

Mbappe is also 0-6 vs. Yamal in single-elimination matches for both club and country. Yamal and Co. won in the UEFA Euro semifinals in 2024, the Supercopa final, Copa del Rey final and Nations League semifinals in 2025 and the 2026 Supercopa Final. This matchup is the latest triumph for the Spaniard.

Spain will meet either England or Argentina in the final on Sunday. The Three Lions and La Albiceleste will clash in Atlanta on Wednesday.

Les Bleus will await the loser in the third-place game on Saturday. Their bid for a third straight World Cup final appearance also failed. They beat Croatia in the 2018 final before losing to Lionel Messi and Argentina in extra time of the 2022 final.

La Furia Roja last made the final in 2010, when they took down the Netherlands 1-0 in extra time for their first ever win in the tournament.

Manager Luis de la Fuente did not lose a game during the 2024 Euros — that record could continue with another triumph on Sunday.

Spain started the tournament tying to Cape Verde 0-0, which ultimately began the latter nation’s dream run. La Furia Roja then thrashed Saudi Arabia 4-0 before edging Uruguay 1-0 in the group finale.

In the knockout rounds, Spain cruised past Austria 3-0. Mikel Merino then scored late winners to eliminate Portugal 1-0 and Belgium 2-1.

"The hostages are OK," the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office confirmed.

Three people reportedly fled the scene. 

The San Francisco Police Department has found the wreckage of the vessel Volare.

Huntington Beach Police Department arrested the 24-year-old on a murder charge.

Isabella A. Fanuele was a successful baker and recent high school graduate.

A human bone discovered in Mendocino County's Eel River changed the investigation.

Three passengers are still missing.

A gastrointestinal disease is affecting thousands in the U.S.

The lawsuit alleges he spent some of the funds on flights and Bay Area restaurants. 

The U.S. Coast Guard is still searching for survivors. 

"No profit is worth such desecration," a tribal leader stated to SFGATE.

A plan to build wildlife crossings on U.S. Route 395 reached a milestone this week. 

The vessel was carrying mostly family members as part of a memorial service, authorities said.

The waterborne bacteria was detected in Lodi in June, SEIU Local 1000 said. 

The county is asking for help with the "collection effort."