welcome back everyone. the news at 530 starts right now. thanks so much for joining us. i'm janelle wang and i'm raj mathai. here comes the heat and here comes some frustration before you start cranking that ac. because pg and e rates are sky high today, a vote by state regulators is likely to change some aspects of how you pay for your power. the vote will help some, but hurt others. here's nbc's ian cull rate hikes have sent pg and e power bills skyrocketing in the past few years. now there could be a little relief on the horizon for some customers, but others are about to get hit a bit harder. and it all depends on how much power you use. the vote is four zero. today, the california public utilities commission passed an item that will add a $24 flat rate to most bills. that money is used to maintain the grid and improve infrastructure and until now was charged as part of your usage

rate. but as part of the change, you'll also be paying 5 to $0.07 less per kilowatt hour. and this isn't just the three largest utilities. makes a lot of sense because those infrastructure costs don't vary depending on how much electricity you use. mark toney of the utility reform network says people who could see prices rise are those using solar and people along the coast who don't use the air conditioning as often. he says they could see bills rise by about 3 to $5 a month. those who could see lower bills include people in hot climates like the east and south bay, and in the central valley, who use their ac much more often . low income households and electric vehicle owners who charge at home. the proposal's goal is to make utility bills more equitable and make it cheaper to go electric, toney says. it's a small step in the right direction. we need rate reduction, rate relief and this

is a tiny part of it. but so much more needs to be done to bring these rates down. critics argue this new flat fee is essentially punishing those who conserve power, while subsidizing people who use more customers. we talked to say they worry any savings won't be enough to make a dent in the already sky high bills. electricity is just outrageous. it's hard to even pay a bill. normally a bill was 6070 bucks. now it's almost $200 and it's a small house. the change won't go into effect until late 2025. in the south bay, ian cull, nbc, bay area news. another notable vote today, and it's a major change for the bay area within the past hour, officials approved a name change for the oakland airport at the oakland port. commissioners made it official at their public meeting. the vote was unanimous. they voted in favor of changing the name of oakland international airport to san

francisco bay. oakland international. the airport's three letter code, o.r.k, will remain the same. today's vote finalizes the new name, despite san francisco threatening a lawsuit over trademark violation. san francisco city attorney david chu says the vote is disappointing, and san francisco is left with no choice but to move forward with its trademark lawsuit. we are celebrating asian american, native hawaiian pacific islander heritage, and that celebration is also understanding our history. what's in a name? that is a question generations of paper sons and paper daughters have asked when discussing their identities and identity. they had to fake because of the chinese exclusion act. tonight two local families share their stories. this is home. rose park station of muni for the t line. what more can a chinese family want? this is where my apartment building was. this was my view

from our corner apartment. kindergarten was right down here. this is where we went to chinese school. a flood of memories overcome calvin chin as he shows us the places where he was born and raised in chinatown. we loved it. his parents came to san francisco from china during the chinese exclusion act. the history behind your family's journey to chinatown is remarkable. we grew up in an atmosphere, a climate where it was dangerous, so we had to grow up with a lot of hiding. i grew up with a phony name. i mean, paper name. chin is not my name. you know, my real name is yim. so who am i? am i a chin? am i a yim? the exclusion act made it nearly impossible for the chinese to immigrate to the u.s. many purchased fake papers, including chin's parents, to come to the u.s. like many immigrants to pursue the american dream. my dad was 14 when he first received the documentation to be a paper son. my mom arrived in 1939 and lands in angel island.

my father was a paper son and my mom was a paper daughter. paper sons or paper daughters are chinese immigrants who purchased papers from a chinese american citizen. that citizen agreed to pretend to be the immigrants blood relative. 1906 earthquake. the enterprising chinese saw the results of that earthquake was the destruction of all records. native families could sponsor paper sons and daughters with these paper names, which as a result they were created fabricated in the absence of legal documentation. so when did you have to switch between names while you were growing up in chinatown? all of our legal documents. we had to use chin in chinese school. our teachers were basically give us a sense of what the political climate was like. so if the climate was safe, we were informed that we could use our real names. so we would go through the school year

. yim another year we would be told now not so good. so we would then revert back to our paper name chin. so we grew up using both names in the 1960s under a u.s. amnesty program. chin's father and mother gave up their false citizenship in exchange for legal citizenship. my real chinese ma jun pang, paul g is also a paper son. he got his u.s. citizenship after serving in the army national guard. his paper name g. boateng. my paper for us. my uncle documents show his uncle or paper father was g wincing at 15 years old, paul left his small village in china in search of a better life. all the area are rice field. we moved to hong kong after the communists came. why did you decide to come to america? opportunity. make something to eat. opportunity and make some money. g was sent to the immigration detention

center at 630 sansome street in san francisco. after a month of interviews with immigration officers in detention, g story matched up with his uncles. he was released, went to kansas to work and be with his family. later, g would meet his wife in college. they moved to san francisco to start a family. so i always just grew up like, okay, dad has a different name from his siblings. their mom or ma, and he's g. stephanie g works for a nonprofit and volunteers with her church supporting refugees and immigrants coming through another name. and that's the only option you have for survival. then that's what you do. and then that makes me think about, like all the immigrants and refugees today, do embrace being chinese differently than you did growing up. definitely. it's something you don't want lost, especially in later generations here in the us with, you know, we are chinese americans, but we are also perpetual foreigners. and i don't want people to forget where we're from to know more about where she's from, g

traveled back to her father's village. i think that makes me appreciate a lot more about our culture, the history, and just i want that story to keep on living. that's why her father, now 86 years old, retired from ucsf and is living the american dream. he is the first chinese american vintner in northern california, recognized by both napa and sonoma counties. he and chen share stories now about their family's journeys. chin worked more than 50 years as a minister and marched in selma with doctor martin luther king jr. it was one of the significant contributing factors to my journey and my path as a minister. what do you think is the most important message for people who don't know this history about the chinese exclusion act? paper, sons and paper daughters? on one level, i could say, well, what it means to be chinese when you're successful, when you succeed, when you do well, you bring a joy and happiness and pride to

everyone else in the family. so it's that sense of responsibility for a community that's beyond yourself. it's larger than who you are. in 2011 and 2012, both the senate and house unanimously passed resolutions expressing regret of past discrimination laws that impacted the chinese community in america, including the chinese exclusion act. trending upward, bedbugs and east bay family learned a hard lesson on vacation. i'm consumer investigator chris chmura. we'll help them get their money back and will help you avoid this six legged nuisance. next i'm chief meteorologist jeff ranieri, the latest on the warming temperatures into this weekend and how we're doing on the reservoirs. yomayu

our consumer investigator chris kamara helps an east bay family that ran into some insect issues . he also has some tips on how you can avoid them. there's stuff crawling all over them. nathan gaither's recent trip might leave you scratching your head after arms and legs. i went to kentucky. that's where i went to school and my high school best friend from pleasanton was actually getting married out there. his photo album includes friends, family, and bedbugs in an airbnb. all it took was pulling back the covers and looking just at the line of the mattress, and they were kind of all over the place. the gaithers learned the hard way that the bedbug population is bouncing back. there is more of a risk. that's orkin entomologist ben hottel. he says bedbugs are hitchhikers and covid slowed them down. we saw really drastic

reduction in bedbugs because people weren't traveling as much, but now people are traveling again. so the bedbug population is growing again. it is not as common as it used to be, but once again, it's been increasing more and more hottel suggests we all check for bedbugs on vacation immediately inspect the bed and box. spring close looks around there and the cracks and crevices. that's usually where they're going to be hiding at. next, turn your attention to the headboard. bang on the headboard a little bit, to see if they'll scatter from behind. they're all clear, rest assured, but play it safe anyway. keep your suitcase away from the bed. don't like? open it up and leave it on on top of the bed, because that's usually where the bedbugs are at when you get home, fire up the washer and dryer. hoddle says. high heat should kill any six legged souvenirs and any hopes they have of infesting your home. that is some strong incentive to do the laundry as soon as you get home? right yeah, exactly. if you if you don't, who knows

what's in them? so where are you most likely to encounter bedbugs? orkin recently compiled this 50 worst us cities list. chicago new york and philadelphia sit at the top. san francisco ranked 41st. and that's just based off of what we've what we've seen with our business. louisville, where nathan encountered bedbugs, ranked 49th, just behind san francisco. so what happened after finding these fiends? his family hightailed it to a hotel that last minute booking cost them $1,200 extra. nathan expected airbnb to cover the bill, but airbnb was kind of shutting us down. i was paying the entire marriott stay out of pocket completely. he was frustrated and contacted us. i watch nbc bay area all the time and i see your program, nbc responds. we contacted airbnb immediately. i was like red carpet service. airbnb didn't share any details, but nathan says it covered the cost of the emergency hotel and refunded his airbnb booking. it was a giant chunk of change. yeah, i think

it was almost $2,000. it was. it was quite a lot. yeah. thank you for helping us out. orkin says hotels, especially big chains, have generally adopted a pest control routine to prevent bedbug outbreaks. well, what about vacation rentals? mom and pops? well, ask them up front before you spend any money. what are you doing about bedbugs and what are you going to do if we find him? we have the full 50 city bedbug list on our website, nbc bay area.com/respond. while you're there, you can contact us just like the gaither family did. snap this qr code to fill out our consumer complaint form online. kris. itchy. are you watching that story? yeah, let's let's talk about something much more pleasant. okay. our weather, it's hot out there right now. it is, sunshine. it's out there all across the bay area. even the coastline. getting in on some warmer temperatures. and we're going to stay with this trend certainly right through this weekend. let me get you into that microclimate forecast, and we'll

show you the blue sky. if you're stuck in the office or who knows, doing chores inside, trying to get everything done before the weekend gets here, look at how amazing it is. unlimited visibility throughout a lot of the bay area right now. san jose with a very warm and comfortable 85 degrees. a little bit of a breeze out of the north northwest. at 12, we did see some high gusts across the mountains today, but those winds are beginning to calm down. and notice this. we'll stay with 80 through 7:00, some 78 and nine. so a nice mild night if you happen to be heading out, maybe getting dinner outside. and then we have some 60s later on tonight i want to take you to our satellite radar picture and show you a pretty cool feature that's happening right now. we often talk about areas of high pressure, but i wanted to show you how this is actually changing the weather pattern and take a look here. this is actually the storm track. and notice how it's moving directly off to the north. second thing i want you to see here is look at the cloud cover. it's just evaporating here. and also moving back away from the

coastline. that's from the area of high pressure that's sitting right here over california, washington and oregon. so that's going to allow the warm air to continue to move in through tomorrow. so we're going to start it off on the mild side. how about it. it's your friday mostly sunny skies no issues with any kind of fog. that's the way we like it. after all the weather we've seen the past few months 57 here through the peninsula, i don't think anybody's going to argue with me on that one. right, san francisco here, 55 and for the east bay, we have you at 57 temperatures as we move through tomorrow, three, four and 5:00. we're going to go warmer here through the inland valleys, 87 los gatos, 85 in gilroy, east san jose, up to 89. looks like some of the hottest weather out here towards brentwood, antioch and discovery bay. we're up to 90 degrees tomorrow. 88, in pleasanton, over to oakland. 83, the peninsula. one thing we'll see here is the coastline going a few degrees cooler from a slight ocean breeze, returning to 66. and down here through redwood city, you're at 83. beautiful day. san francisco out

of the 80s in downtown, but you're still holding on to a warm 77. and up here to the north bay 88 in napa, 78, in mill valley, okay. where do we go from here? i wanted to show you the mid to upper 80s. they're going to continue all the way into thursday of next week and then not this weekend, but the weekend after it. we could go cooler. right now it doesn't look extremely cold, but it looks like we'd be back into the 70s. so enjoy those 80s right now. and look, we've had so many years in a row with poor reservoir levels and the drought. i wanted to show you you do not have to feel guilty. reservoir numbers are coming in strong right now. 99% of capacity in marin water, east bay mud, 90. lexington reservoir 96.5 and absolutely no drought here through most of california. just a little bit left near the california arizona border and the california oregon border. so we are drought free right here on that 7-day forecast. here it is. as we head into saturday, 74 in san francisco. that will be

the warmest day. and for the inland valleys we're at 88 saturday 84 on sunday. it's just so great to not see any drought reservoirs full and an awesome snowpack. it's just it's phenomenal all over. you're hitting it out of the park. yeah. thanks, jeff. up next, the rookies are here. the newest 40 niners reporting for duty. it's their first day on the job. we'r

right now the team is holding its rookie mini camp. i think they have a little name tags and stuff from high draft picks to undrafted free agents. a lot of young players are just trying to showcase their skills and make it in the nfl. here's nbc's anthony flores rookie minicamp is underway for the 49ers. and really, it's like the first day of school here at levi's stadium. there are a bunch of new faces eager to learn. coaches are trying to educate, then evaluate who has the game to pass the test of playing in the nfl. here we go. thanks. thank you. from first time meetings with the media to meeting his new teammates, it's a day of introductions for offensive lineman jared kingston. the sixth round draft pick was born in redding but raised a rams fan. that's all changed now. i'm a huge fornander fan, so kingston and the rest of the niners rookie class will be doing their best to impress this weekend. drafted

or not, everyone stepping on the field has the opportunity to realize their dreams of being in the nfl, to be able to get to this point, you know, to prove to the five year old version of myself, you know, who dreamed to be in this position to that i'm actually here. you know, it's exciting, but you know now it's now now it's about maintaining that. so, i'm definitely excited for it. everybody should be excited to start playing football again. you no longer running 40 or doing broad jumps or like, you know, verts. none of that. it's time to just, you know, put the pads on and make some plays. so i'm very excited for that. i'm excited to get to work. but yeah, mainly grateful for the opportunity. we'll get our first look at the rookies on the practice field tomorrow, the niners offseason workout program for the entire team begins later this month. mandatory minicamp is scheduled for the first week in june at levi's stadium. anthony flores nbc bay area i'm pretty exciting still ahead,

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killing at least three people. more than 80 possible tornadoes have touched down in 17 states just over the past three days. those storms leaving a trail of destruction, destroying homes,

knocking out power. people in tennessee are starting to clean up tonight. officials say it's too soon to know the full extent of the damage. well, a shake up in the pageant world. miss usa and miss teen usa are now giving up their crowns. this morning, 17 year old umma sophia srivastava stunned the pageant world by giving up her title. she said her personal values no longer fully aligned with the direction of the organization. she previously made history as the first mexican indian-american winner of the miss teen usa pageant. this comes just two days after miss usa noelia voight announced her own resignation. with less than six months to go in her reign, citing mental health issues. the ceo of the miss usa organization responding to the resignation, saying in a statement the well-being of the individuals associated with miss usa is a top priority. the paris olympics 78 days away and today the 78 day torch relay started across

france. former marseille soccer star basile boli carried the olympic flame through the streets of marseille. he called the tradition a great honor. the torch is now on an 11 week journey across france. it will eventually pass through the hands of some 10,000 torch bearers and more than 450 towns. the flame is set to arrive in paris for the opening ceremony on july 26th. you can watch it all here on nbc bay area. and you are a torch bearer. how many times i was a torch bearer? yeah, it's. it's such an honor. you get to keep the torch, you get to brought it in for show and tell. you have to do that again. we'll bring it in again. jessica aguirre will be at the olympics in paris. she joins us now, though, with what's coming up next. well, coming up now at six, a huge haul of fentanyl found stashed under a baby's crib. the charges tonight against a couple in the south bay in one of the largest opioid busts in santa clara county. what else? investigators found in that apartment? also, the

video is pretty dramatic. a fire in the east bay sends neighbors and firefighters scrambling to protect the homes and feeling the sting of california's insurance crisis. we hear from a woman after she got a sky high bill to insure her home. the news at six starts right now. good evening and thanks for being with us on this thursday. i'm raj mathai and i'm jessica aguirre. the bidens doing double duty in the bay area tonight. the president and first lady, jill biden, arriving for a two day visit. mrs. biden, the first to touch down at sfo just after 430 today. she flew in from portland, where she attended a political finance event earlier this afternoon. now the first lady is speaking at a similar event in marin county this evening, and she's off to los angeles tomorrow afternoon for another event before heading to phoenix. in the meantime, president biden is set to touch down in the south bay tonight at moffett field. he took off after hosting wnba champions the las vegas aces at the white house earlier today. the president is set to land at moffett field

around eight. president doesn't have any events scheduled this evening, but tomorrow he's attending two separate fundraisers, one in portola valley, hosted by billionaire venture capitalist vinod khosla, the other in palo alto, hosted by silicon valley executives marissa meyer and joseph ansanelli. after that, mr. biden will take off to seattle for more campaign events. and of course, we'll continue to follow both the president and the first lady's visit with our coverage in tonight's newscast. our other top story, a south bay family, says sticker shock doesn't even begin to describe their latest homeowner's insurance bill. the premium for one of their homes doubled, and they say that home isn't even in a high fire area. and while companies insurance companies keep canceling policies all across the country, the family says there really isn't much they can do except figure out how to pay that premium. here's nbc bay area's damian trujillo. homeowners across the country are having to deal with the unstable insurance market, but one family from san jose says what happened to them is unbelievable. few words can describe pamela