mark kelly shows us the massive tree that wiped out a home. >> some of the neighbors saw it come down. >> he surveys the damage this century old tree did to the house he rents out. >> it's overwhelming, the entire house was covered in tree, you couldn't see it. >> today, the it tenants got their cats and tried to salvage what they had left, he was happy nobody was home when the cypress knocked into the home but the neighbor heard the crash. >> i thought it was an earthquake. >> she said the wind was whipping up stronger than usual yesterday. >> it was a perfect storm to up root a tree that in normal conditions would be hard to up root. >> he said it's a city owned tree and appeared healthy but this winter's wind and rain were just too powerful and even with the headache it caused, the neighborhood is sad to see the tree gone. >> it was one of the favorite trees in the valley. >> mark kelly, kpix5. >> we'll continue to track this storm and bring you updates as we get them. >> bullets flew this morning in san jose, a man firing a gun inside of a 7-11 on fruit daily dale avenue. >> they

all those details in a live report but for now, mark kelly, kpix five. >> mark is working overtime this weekend to try to get 60 of his cars back in service by tomorrow morning's commute.>>> they have been dealing with a problem in the trans bay tube. they have taken 80 bart cars out because of power issues. they replaced one a few months ago. taking cars off-line means passengers will be on shorter trains and those will be more crowded. >> not as bad as a bus in the city but it's pretty close. you just hope you can make it. it's just not fun at all. >> part -- bart assures passengers if they happen to be on a train where it happens, they may not even notice it >>> >> meanwhile, can eight is trying to -- bart is trying to get passengers to change the schedule. bart perks attempts to get passengers to shift their schedules. if so, trends over the last crammed during peak times. >> where encouraging them to travel before 7 am or after 8:30 am. if you do, those points you earned can be redeemed for small cash incentives where you can play and possibly win up to $100. >>will use clipper car

he tells mark kelly: he's bg sued -- by a guy who broke his home! his home! >>> a man tells mark kelly he's being sued by the guy who broke into his home. >> that is my biggest issue, our system allows these people to have the right to sue. >> reporter: he could hardly believe an intruder sued him for negligent use of handgun, he was just protecting his family. ice's family was spending the night at his parents foster city home when 4:15 a.m., a noise woke joe up. >> and i heard the noise coming from the front door. i heard clicking, rattling of the door handel, so i woke up my father, told him someone was trying to break into the house. where's your gun. >> reporter: the intruders did not stop at the front door. he jumped the fence, and went to the back of the house and through the side door into the garage, left unlocked. >> this guy's now in my house. >> reporter: in the dark house, joe came face to face with his 6'4" intruder, and fired three shots. >> shot him right here. and that put him on the ground. >> reporter: the plaintiff said he was intoxicated,

he tells mark kelly: he's bg sued -- by a guy who broke his home! his home! >>> a man tells mark kelly he's being sued by the guy who broke into his home. >> that is my biggest issue, our system allows these people to have the right to sue. >> reporter: he could hardly believe an intruder sued him for negligent use of handgun, he was just protecting his family. joe's family was spending the night at his parents foster city home when 4:15 a.m., a noise woke joe up. >> and i heard the noise coming from the front door. i heard clicking, rattling of the door handel, so i woke up my father, told him someone was trying to break into the house. where's your gun. >> reporter: the intruders did not stop at the front door. he jumped the fence, and went to the back of the house and through the side door into the garage, left unlocked. >> this guy's now in my house. >> reporter: in the dark house, joe came face to face with his 6'4" intruder, and fired three shots. >> shot him right here. and that put him on the ground. >> reporter: the plaintiff said he was intoxicated,

. >> mark kelly back on mother earth. >> commander mark kelly back on solid ground giving two thumbs up and a peace son telling reporters that the air felt so good. >> cold air was amazing, fresh air, there is nothing like new cold air coming into the capsule. >> the russian spacecraft landed in kazakhstan overnight and kelly and his russian counterpart returning to a hero's welcome. >> i felt like i was there my whole life after the first six months. >> he spent 340 days in space and completed nearly 5500 orbits that is almost 144 million miles, to the moon and back 300 times. >> by going to mars one day it will make things better here on earth, i'm happy to be a part of that. >> one the purposes of this mission is to measure the affects of space on the human body by comparing him to his twin, retired astronaut, mark kelly. this record holder admits being home is bitter sweet. >> i have been there a long time and i look forward to leaving but at the same time it's a magnificent place and i'm going to miss. >> he is expected to return home to houston tonight to be greeted by his fami

k-p-i-x five's mark kelly has more, on a >>> a bizarre story. first a man broke into a foster city home. >> now he is suing the homeowner's son. kpix 5's mark kelly has more on a lawsuit that's hard to believe. >> that is my biggest issue. our judicial system allows these people to have the right to try to sue >>> reporter: joe could hardly believe an intruder sued him for negligent use of a handgun. he says he was merely protecting his family. >> i had no choice, begin the circumstances. >> reporter: march 24, 2012, joe's family was spending the night at his parents' foster city home when 4:15 a.m., a noise woke joe up. >> and i heard the noise coming from the front door. i heard click, rattling of the door handle. so i woke up my father, told him someone was trying to break into the house. where's your gun? >> reporter: joe says the intruder did not stop at the front door. he jumped the fence and made his way around the back of the house and through the side door into the garage, left unlocked. >> this guy's now in my house. >> reporter: in th

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and her husband, mark kelly, former navy captain an astronaut. [applause] as the youngest woman ever elected to the arizona state senate, gabrielle giffords represented the immunity from 2000-2000 five, and then in

weekend commuters tell mark kelly they've had enough. >> reporter: day four of an electrical problem on bart's yellow line has some riders seeing red. >> i just want them to fix it. >> it would be easier to have it running. >> reporter: the spokesperson said 24 weekend, maximum evident is being made to find a fix for the stretch of track, but the only option is hopping on one of the nine bus bridges that is looping between the two stations. >> it seems like it's more us, you have to get -- and you have to get off the bus, off the bart. >> i don't know what's wrong with the track! >> reporter: apparently, neither does bart. they do know this gadget sometimes blows out, but no idea why. >> i say they're working on the problem, trying to get it fixed. >> reporter: bart hopes an expert can help figure it out. but until then, riders are prepared to use the bus bridges come monday. >> whatever is going on, i hope they fix it. so i can get back to my regular schedule. >> reporter: mark kelly, kpix5. >> each one of those cost $1000 to replace and hard to get. they normally run 170 train cars

mark kelly has the story. >> i have never seen anything like this in my 15 years here. i thought maybe somebody would have crashed into the station. dead with blood on their shirts. they first found that around 7:00 this morning when they were leaving for a call that they believe that they could have been parked in the driveway any time since the most recent call three hours earlier. the victim was 51 years old and that they do not show foul play. but the autopsy this week that it is expected to give more clues as to how a man ended up dead in front of the fire house. in oakley mark kelly cbs5. >>> the victim may have had some sort of medical condition. >>> an early morning fire forced 13 people out of their south bay homes. that it spread from the shed to two homes that everyone made it out okay and that the homes, they do have smoke damage and no word on what would cause that fire. tonight president obama is in the middle of the historic family. even taking the walking tour of old havana today in the rain as they would see it as a way to solve that icy diplomatic rela

kelly back on earth, both undergoing exhaustive medical exams both in space and on ground and mark kelly today. they have already taken 30 samples of blood. >> today. >> reporter: just today? >> 30 tubes. >> reporter: along his 144 million mile journey his tweets with stunny photography quickly went viral. back on earth his banana, and after a year without a shower he dreamed of jumping back into his pool in houston. meanwhile, that whole gravity thing is taking some time. >> i tried to shoot some basketballs yesterday, and i didn't get any of them in the -- in the net. >> reporter: settling back in after a year up there. tom costello, nbc news, houston. >>> that will do it for us on a friday night. i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching. good night and have a >> announcer: today on the meredith vieira show. a high school principal is a student's yearbook picture. and a then what has chrissy towing an fired up. >> and real life super power that loves you speechless. one man's powerful mission to help other ares. >> hang in there. >> wait until you see the surp

reporting live, mark davenport, wbtv on your side. >> john: scott kelly's year in space is over. kristen miranda has new details live in the alert center. >> kristen: yeah, a pretty amazing sight, john and christine as scott kelly touched back down on earth a little before midnight last night. let's take a look at video actually if we can. kelly and a russian cosmonaut were on the international space station 340 days. this is the moment that scott kelly came out of that capsule that landed him safely back in kazakhstan and gave the thumb's up, he gave a fist pump when he got out of the capsule. they traveled 144 million miles they circled the world 5440 times, and experienced 10,880 orbital sunrises and sunsets. if you want to go back to apple tv quickly, mark kelly, the twin brother, tweeted this last night, my brother is back home on our planet, talk aboutallens, he has been off the planet for a year. now they will test what space does, what living in space does for a year, does to the body because they have a twin brother, that they, who has been on earth and has been living n

mark kelly is in the newsroom right now. what is it all about? >> it has to do with an app that allows users to send self- destructing messages. >> reporter: that's nypd deputy commissioner john miller talking about apps like wicker and telegram that are getting into the hands of terrorists, allowing them to communicate secretly. >> we are seeing not just iphones that can't be cracked, but the entire systems that are designed to it be uncrackable. >> reporter: they call their app a secure communications platform that you can send texts, videos, and photos all encrypted. another app telegram is similar. security analyst worry that attacks like these could be planned without protection. >> when you ask the question on how they could miss this, technology is becoming a big enabler. >> reporter: but wicker calls that online privacy a universal human right and one that he's willing to defend. earlier this month wicker joined other tech companies in this brief, defending it from the federal government. it could lead to direct attacks here in the u.s. w

thanks to the weekend's wet condition -- mark kelly who say mud isn't coming in their direction. >>reporter: the flood of this home looks fine, but at the back of the house, it's teetering on a cliff. it looks like any moment these two homes can slide into the swollen creek below. the trail a few yards away buckled like a freeway in an earthquake. >> we're trying to get as many things out as quickly as possible. >> he owns the land behind these homes. the trail has been shut down. but neighbors like laura burgerson who worries her house could go next says east bay mud should do more. >> what have they said? >> nothing. we had zero communication from them. even if we have it fixed today, we can't get equipment on there because the soils are totally unstable. and they're wet. >> east bay mud said they're monitoring and put down these large tarps as a band aid to get the soil to dry faster, but the people who live here don't want to take a risk. they're abandoning ship. >> definitely not going to be sleeping here. >> mark kelly, kpix 5. >> they expect apart of the hillside back in j

mark kelly explains if you plan on commuting between san leandro and bay fair, you're going to have a lot of trouble. >> reporter: here in san leandro we spotted b.a.r.t. crews working hard on a holiday weekend. >> we're replacing things on the aerial structures. >> reporter: that includes 2,000 feet of rail, 550 ties and other old degraded parts of the track. while that work is happening there's not a single train running from san leandro to bay fair. so riders have to hop on a bus. >> going to be late in this last minute affixture, it's very inconvenient. >> reporter: ac transit has a stream of free buses to shuttle riders between the two east bay stations but navigating this change could get confusing. >> everyone has to get off the train here at bay fair and then get on a bus and then reboard the system. they'll only be on blue line trains. they'll need to get back on a richmond train. we're saying to get back on a richmond train. >> reporter: got that? if not, b.a.r.t. says it has lots of staff at both stations guiding passengers to where they need to go. >> everything seems to b

kelly back on earth, both undergoing exhaustive medical exams both in space and on ground and mark kelly today. they have already taken 30 samples of blood. >> today. >> reporter: just today? >> 30 tubes. >> reporter: along his 144 million mile journey his tweets with stunny photography quickly went viral. back on earth his first meal was a banana, and after a year without a shower he dreamed of jumping back into his pool in houston. meanwhile, that whole gravity thing is taking some time. >> i tried to shoot some basketballs yesterday, and i didn't get any of them in the -- in the net. >> reporter: settling back in after a year up there. tom costello, nbc news, houston. >>> that will do it for us on a friday night. for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching. good night and have a >> announcer: the following is a paid presentation for the nuwave oven pro, brought to you by the makers of the nuwave precision induction cooktop. [ ...] professional chefs create great-tasting meals from years of experience and by using professional equipment. and now you can too, with the nuwave oven

live in berkeley, mark kelly. >>> bay area tech mogul known for having a thing for fast cars and women is facing new legal trouble tonight. his limo driver says he never paid, and the family was threatened with deportation. he told his story to andrea borba. >> he says in 2012, he's grade to become a driver for the former ceo, convicted of beating his girlfriend. the home in brisbane for the family was paid for, but that was it. >> like what happened to my family. >> reporter: had a bieb was forced to drive him around day and night. even finding girls for after-parties. he was on call 24 hours a day, always available through the pin-me app. >> this is way he play in 2014, january, and he told me that i will pay you this. >> reporter: then, without payment, the relationship soured, and he stapped pay the rent on the brisbane rental. >> reporter: he lost his belongings, and they moved to ohio until legal aid stepped in. >> this month, cal labor commissioner ruled he old -- he was expected to be -- >> reporter: he has until tomorrow to appeal the ruling, but in order to file that appeal i

and her husband, mark kelly, former navy captain an astronaut. [applause] as the youngest woman ever elected to the arizona state senate, gabrielle giffords represented the immunity from 2000-2000 five, and then in congress in 2006-2012. her success was credited to her kindness, candor, intelligence, and hard work. [applause] on january 8, 2011, at a congress on your corner event in tucson, with her constituents, congressman giffords was shot in the head from their point-blank range. in stepping down from congress in january of 2012, she said, i will return and we will work together for arizona and this great country. [applause] her husband, captain mark kelly, is a retired united states navy combat veteran, test pilots, and nasa astronaut. [applause] >> as a naval aviator, captain kelly made to deployments to the persian gulf on the aircraft carrier uss midway, and flew 39 combat missions in operation desert storm. [applause] the winner of many awards including the defense superior service medal, the legionnaire existing bush flying cross, capta

kpix 5 mark kelly looked at what is being done to bring the violence to an end. >> there is always concern someone would be caught in the cross fire. how do you put your minds at ease? >> we've had seven incidents. of those incidents only two innocent bystanders were effected. >> reporter: when you go down interstate 80 do you think about it? >> yeah. >> reporter: police believe these freeway shootings which started in early november are likely gang related but they would not say which gangs. investigators say this weekend's latest victim 39-year- old leslie graham shot while driving this jeep had strong ties to a north richmond gang. >> reporter: does it ease your mind when police say it's gang related? >> no. >> reporter: why? >> i don't know if it's a stray shooting. if they are doing gang violence. >> reporter: but driver krista feels differently. >> if it was random, i would feel more scared. >> reporter: the seven shootings have happened at all hours of the day from rush hour to the middle of the night. what more is chp doing to stop the shooter or shooters? >> we have extra patrols

kelly back on earth, both undergoing exhaustive medical exams both in space and on ground and mark kelly today. they have already taken 30 samples of blood. >> today. >> reporter: just today? >> 30 tubes. >> reporter: along his 144 million mile journey his tweets with stunny photography quickly went viral. back on earth his first meal was a banana, and after a year without a shower he dreamed of jumping back into his pool in houston. meanwhile, that whole gravity thing is taking some time. >> i tried to shoot some basketballs yesterday, and i didn't get any of them in the -- in the net. back in after a year up there. tom costello, nbc news, houston. >>> that will do it for us on a friday night. i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching.

. >>> tonight neighbors told mark kelly there's been so much violence in the area of debose triangle lately that now they are living in fear. >> reporter: neighbor asks police what's going to be done to fix this. ....police released a sketch of the suspect. bite dean-, ass us neighbo when walking through debose triangle today, cora atkins sees a very different neighborhood from the '70s. >> it seems creepier. it seems so much creepier now. >> reporter: the neighborhood has become downright violent. a man attacked this neighbor and his wife last month. tonight for the first time police release a sketch of that suspect. >> i want my neighbors to feel safe. >> reporter: dean's assault is not the only unsolved attack. two years ago a man known as feather lynn, his real name, brian higgins, was beaten to death. another man mike marquez was shot to death that. has many in debose saying they are looking over their shoulders. >> psychologically i've been affected, too and i just kind of look twice when i'm walking down the street. >> reporter: the entire san francisco police force has 300 fe

. >>> tonight neighbors told mark kelly there's been so much violence in the area of debose triangle lately that now they are living in fear. >> reporter: neighbor asks police what's going to be done to fix this. ..police released a sketch of the suspect. bite dean-, assau us neighbors to when walking through debose triangle today, cora atkins sees a very different neighborhood from the '70s. >> it seems creepier. it seems so much creepier now. >> reporter: the neighborhood has become downright violent. a man attacked this neighbor and his wife last month. tonight for the first time police release a sketch of that suspect. >> i want my neighbors to feel safe. >> reporter: dean's assault is not the only unsolved attack. two years ago a man known as feather lynn, his real name, brian higgins, was beaten to death. another man mike marquez was shot to death that. has many in debose saying they are looking over their shoulders. >> psychologically i've been affected, too and i just kind of look twice when i'm walking down the street. >> reporter: the entire san francisco police force has 3

mark kelly, kpix 5. >>> new details about sexual harassment scandal that cost a cal basketball coach his job. uc-berkeley fired assistant coach after a 7 month investigation found he reportedly trapped a sports reporter in the garage and talked about sex. it also says he also sent the woman sexual text messages and then blackballed her. the reporter was fired. now the "chronicle" is required that a head coach may have known about the allegations long before reporting it. emails obtained by the "chronicle" show that martin knew that a female reporter complained about him two months before reporting it to university. this is the fourth high-profile sexual harassment case at cal since last year. >>> in the east bay a vote to ban a mascot. christin ayers reports. >>> everyone knows that a rebel mascot represents slavery of african-american students! >> reporter: he is ready for a fight. he says his son left san lorenzo high because of school mascot. >> this rebel guy ex-colonel who promotes the admiration of a confederacy of a slave- endorsing country. >> reporter: a video made my some s

kpix 5 reporter mark kelly spoke to residents who are preparing for the worst. >> put it in the car. >>> reporter: the harder the rain came down, the more people rolled up desperate for sandbags to take home. >> san francisco resident? >> yes, sir. >> all right. >> this little area by my house that's always flooding. >> we prepare ourselves for it just in case it really gets out of hand. >> reporter: if you live in san francisco, you could pick up 10 sandbags at this site at marin and kansas streets. it won't cost you a thing. >> ten of them. >> yup. >> we knew that there were going to be lots of storms. we started stockpiling the sandbags early and we have plenty on hand. >> reporter: the city's also prepared for those without a home. bill graham civic auditorium has been turned into a pop-up shelter to keep the homeless dry. >> you don't need a reservation. just come in. get something to eat. get out of the weather. you know, as long as your behavior is -- is good, you're welcome to stay. >> reporter: and there is a second pop-up shelter right here at the county fair building insid

i understand that right. >> retired astronaut mark kelly will be the first to tell you he owns a gun and supports second amendment rights but what he can't get behind are the numbers that say every 17 minutes someone, somewhere in this country, dies of gun violence. >> we have 33,000 people die from gun violence every year. >> the best approach he says begins with looking at who can get them. >> keeping guns out of the hands of criminals like dangerous felons, domestic abusers and people that are dangerously mentally ill. >> they hope to close the loopholes that prevent people from getting guns. >> stopping gun violence takes courage. the courage to do what's right, the courage of new ideas, i've seen great courage when my life was on the line. >> with the support of one another they hope to draw support across the board toughening up gun laws and hopefully saving lives in the process. >> now is the time to come together, be responsible, democrats, republicans, everyone. we must never stop fighting. >> as you saw that coalition has brought a lot of people together, there were pastors

as mark kelly reports, the cause of death was electrocution >>> reporter: slipping, drowning all common fears around a pool. but electrocution, that one is unusual. investigators believe that's what killed bay area tech executive jim tramel and sent one of his daughters to the hospital. >> very unusual that we would have something like this happen. you always hear about maybe an accident where a child near drowns or something like that. >> reporter: the burlingame family was spending easter at their vacation home in palm springs. police say during an afternoon swim, jim noticed his 9-year- old daughter was turning blue. investigators now believe the child was likely experiencing an electric shock from an old faulty light in the swimming pool and when jim dove in to save his daughter, he jumped into that fatal electrical current. >> some of these homes are 25, 30 years old orr longer older and they can deteriorate. it needs to be looked at. >> reporter: police haven't said when the tramel's pool had its last inspection but 16 years working with pools steven little warns all pool owners t

mark kelly today. >> they've already taken 30 samples of blood. >> well, today. >> along his 144 million mile journey, his tweets with stunning photography quickly went viral. back on earth, his first meal was a banana and after a year without a shower, he dreamed of jumping back into his pool in houston. meanwhile, that whole gravity thing is taking some time. >> i tried to shoot some basketballs yesterday, and i didn't get any of them in the net. >> reporter: settling back in after a year up there. tom costello, nbc news, houston. >>> that will do it for us on a friday night. i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching. good night and have a good weekend. ==peggy/vo== a preview f wt's to come.more r way. we're tracking the stormsh a preview of what's to come. more rain and wind headed our way. we're tracking these storms hour by hour. how bay area cities are bracing for damage. >> thanks for joining uggs. i'm peggy bunker. >> i'm raj mathai. it's going to be a wet weekend. a series of storms on the way. the rain we're seeing this afternoon and evening is the firs

in pacifica, mark kelly, kpix 5. >> the city says it was able to find a new permanent home for 14 of the 20 displaced families. >>> it is 4:42 on this thursday morning. she made a babysitting arrangement at a fast-food restaurant with a stranger. and now the bay area mother is in jail. the charges she is facing, when we come back. ,, ,,,,,,,, a mother admits to giving h two little girls to a woman barely knew. juliette go nd >>> a shocking story that has bay area parent buzzing this morning. a mother admits to giving her two little girls to a woman she barely knew. juliette goodrich on the search and where those children turned up safe. >>> reporter: it's been a harrowing 24 hours for these toddlers. they are now safe. here's what happened and it's convoluted. their mother is behind bars facing child endangerment charges because she basically handed her two children over to a near stranger. here's a photo of the toddlers. a surveillance photo shows them sitting side by side in a stroller when their mother, 26- year-old shanyce jones of oakland, left them in the care of an acquaintanc

. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> mark kelly on the backlash against private message platforms and the brussels attacks. >> we're looking at what we call going dark. >>> reporter: that's nypd deputy commissioner john i willer talking about apps like telegram that he says are getting into the hands of terrorists and allowing them to communicate secretly. >> we are seeing not just iphones that can't be cracked but entire communications systems that are designed to be impenetrable and we're seeing those become the primary tools of terrorists. >> reporter: san francisco- based wicker calls its app a secure communications platform. you can send texts, video and photos and it's all encrypted. another app telegram is similar. security analysts worry apps like these allow isis to plan attacks without detection. >> so when you ask a question like, how could they miss this? technology is becoming a big enabler. >> reporter: but wicker calls that online privacy a universal human right and one it's willing to defend. earlier this month, wicker joined other tech companies in this amicus brief defending apple agains

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in berkeley, mark kelly, kpix 5. >>> police say drugs and alcohol didn't play a part in a crash that brought a semi truck smashing into a san carlos home. the truck driver just lost control as i hit a curve on a winding road on monday and hit a pole, fence and half of that home. the owners were not home. they were vacationing in hawaii when the rig hit their home. the driver had just cuts in the crash. >>> another person in the bay area has been swept out to sea. it's something that seems to be happening more frequently lately. mark sayre on the search for a missing man in half moon bay. >>> reporter: san mateo county sheriff's deputies are still looking for this man, 25-year- old michael dwyer of brisbane. he was reported missing after failing to return from a trip to the beach. earlier in the day, witnesses reported seeing a man wearing board shorts swept out to sea at dunes beach and while authorities cannot be sure, they say it is possible that victim was in fact dwyer. his car was found in a parking lot along the shoreline just a half mile away. >> i just saw the ambulances out

esplanade avenue will be the next asset that's at risk. >> reporter: in pacifica, mark kelly, kpix5. >>> nancy reagan passed away yesterday in in her southern california home. >> reporter: a steady stream of mourners stopped at the ronald reagan presidential library and museum sunday to leave flowers and pay respects to former first lady nancy reagan. >> i thought she brought a lot of classiness to the position of first lady. >> reporter: nancy reagan died of congestive heart failure sunday at her los angeles home. mrs. reagan was known for being her husband's fiercest protector and most trusted advisor. she was an advocate for stem cell research following reagan's diagnosis of alzheimer's disease in 1994. congregants talked about the former first lady after sunday's services. >> she was genuinely considerate of the people around her and she always greeted everyone with a smile, as did her husband. >> reporter: nancy reagan's best known project as first lady was the just say no campaign aimed at keeping kids and teenagers away from drugs. though she had her critics, her admirers will

. >>> mark kelly tells us that they probably won't have any trouble getting bookings, mark? >> reporter: that's the latest cbs news poll finding for the first time in decades that more americans will have a positive view of cuba and that 43% say that they will be interested in seeing the island for themselves. >> and the people, that they are really amazing. they are unbelievably warm. >> reporter: they know the streets of havana well that they run that non-profit bay area cuban community alliance and that doing her work in cuba, that it is becoming much easier. >> and that you'll see the changes when you are there and that it is still not widely available in the hot spot and the people that we're working with on the grounds, that they have been able to communicate with us much easier and that it is amazing. >>> like airbsndb, the whopping 30,000 americans have stayed in the air bnb since the federal government loosened the restrictions. but still americans, they can't travel to cuba for pure pleasure that you must be one of several categories like education or humanitarian

kelly back on earth, both undergoing exhaustive medical exams both in space and on ground and mark kelly today. they have already taken 30 samples of blood. >> today. >> reporter: just today? >> 30 tubes. >> reporter: along his 144 million mile journey his tweets with stunny photography quickly went viral. back on earth his first meal was a banana, and after a year without a shower he dreamed of jumping back into his pool in houston. meanwhile, that whole gravity thing is taking some time. >> i tried to shoot some basketballs didn't get any of them in the -- in the net. >> reporter: settling back in after a year up there. tom costello, nbc news, houston. >>> that will do it for us on a friday night. i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, thank you for good weekend. >>> 20 years after the o.j. simpson trial. >> have police made a shocking discovery? >> was the knife used in the double homicide found in the rubble of o.j. simpson's mansion? >>> then, donald trump movie panic. >> is the new sacha baron cohen movie being suppressed because it insults trump? >> as trump defends his manho

kelly, kpix 5. >> as mark said turner could spend up to 10 years in prison. he will have to register as a sex offender. his sentencing is june. >>> for the first time in years the sierra snowpack is near average. yesterday's surveyors near lake tahoe found it at 9% of normal. that's compared to just 5% at the same location a year ago. now it's 97% of normal. the question is whether water restrictions should be eased. last year the governor ordered sharp water cuts. >>> my guess is roberta has an opinion on that. >> there is no way water restriction are going to be eased at all. it took us four years to dig ourselves into this problem and will take another four years to get out of it. sure, we saw some beneficial rains. we didn't see what we were hoping for but we saw above average so that's certainly some good news there this morning. but we will have to conserve throughout the summer months. good morning, everyone. we are wrapping up this month of march on a dry quiet note. this is the scene looking out towards the bay bridge where we have some thin overcast

mark kelly on what is going on and what it will take to fix it. >> reporter: inmates caught on camera earlier this month beating each other up was front and center at today's blue ribbon commission which was set up to improve conditions in the same jail. >> what we could do better. >> reporter: just days before this brawl, deputies were instructed to scrap the security system. one they have been using since 2014 that separated freuding inmates. commission chair and kpix5 legal analyst cordell blasted the jail experts that came up with that idea. >> what kind of expert would recommend this kind of change? >> reporter: the commission made up of a variety of community leaders agreed to 121 changes they want to see in santa clara county jails including federal oversight, new leadership, and one big one. >> you must have better training, especially regarding mental health issues. >> reporter: following the august death of mentally ill inmate michael tyrie, mental illness has been a big focus in the commission. this blue ribbon commission has met 11 times since november and even though toda

kpix 5's mark kelly on the lawsuit pitting a dispatcher against a police chief. >> reporter: mountain view police chief max bosel's online bio says he has a collaborative leadership style but his employee dispatcher annie loehmann says the chief is no leader. jim mcmanus is her attorney. >> doing stuff that shouldn't be done by a professional in the workplace and, um, she was having to witness it. >> reporter: annie claims that included unwanted sexual advances and unwanted physical conduct of a sexual nature. the complaint filed against the chief and the city of mountain view said it happened for years. at the time the chief led the s.w.a.t. team she was the dispatcher. >> once she made her complaint, then bosel and his cronies went after her. >> reporter: annie has been on paid administrative leave for more than a year. mountain view city manager posted this letter on the city's website: we are implementing additional training for all police staff on these standards. but he also writes that the city investigated and the claims made by the employee were not supported by the facts. at

kpix5's mark kelly on the gruesome discovery in oakland. >> i have never seen anything like this in my 15 years here. >> reporter: firefighter ross says when he reported to station 93 in oakley, he saw an unsettling scene in the driveway. >> i saw the police cars here thought maybe somebody crashed into the station. >> reporter: but ross says it wasn't a crash and this red car was a male victim dead with blood on his shirt. firefighters first saw the body when they were leaving on a call, but believe the victim could have been parked in the driveway anytime since the most recent call three hours earlier. >> no honking, nothing of that sort. all they knew was when they went to leave, they found the car parked right in front of the station. >> reporter: the sheriff's office says the victim was 51 years old, and a preliminary investigation does not show foul play but an autopsy this week is expected to give more clues as to how a man ended up dead in front of a firehouse. in oakley, mark kelly, kpix5. >> the sheriff's office says the victim may have suffered from a medical condition. >>>

kelly back on earth, both undergoing exhaustive medical exams both in space and on ground and mark kelly today. they have already taken 30 samples of blood. >> today. >> reporter: just today? >> 30 tubes. >> reporter: along his 144 million mile journey his tweets with stunny photography quickly went viral. back on earth his first meal was a banana, and after a year without a shower he dreamed of jumping back into his pool in meanwhile, that whole gravity thing is taking some time. >> i tried to shoot some basketballs yesterday, and i didn't get any of them in the -- in the net. >> reporter: settling back in after a year up there. tom costello, nbc news, houston. >>> that will do it for us on a friday night. i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching. good night and have a good weekend. >> the scandal among polk county school leaders keeps growing. we have the latest. plus, history on display in sarasota. meet two heros who have special ties to this aircraft.

kpix 5's mark kelly on the change. >> the people are really amazing. they're unbelievably warm >>> reporter: nina knows the streets of havana well. she runs the nonprofit baarea cuban community alliance and says doing her humanitarian work in cuba is becoming much easier. >> you just see the changes when you're there. wi-fi is still not widely available but there are kind of hot spots and the people that we're working with on the ground have been able to communicate with us more easily with phone and internet. >> reporter: bay area tech companies like airbnb also see the potential in this communist country. a whopping 13,000 americans have stayed at an airbnb since the federal government loosened the restrictions. still, miles per hour can't travel to cuba for pure pleasure. you must be one of several categories like education or humanitarian work. >> there are still travel restrictions but it's easier to travel directly. >> we all predicted that these changes would be happening. it started to happen very quickly. >> reporter: and nina predicts the col

kelly back on earth, both undergoing exhaustive medical exams both in space and on ground and mark kelly today. they have already taken 30 samples of blood. >> today. >> reporter: just today? >> 30 tubes. >> reporter: along his 144 million mile journey his tweets with stunny photography quickly went viral. back on earth his first meal was a banana, and after a year without a shower he dreamed of jumping back into his pool in houston. meanwhile, that whole gravity thing is taking some time. some basketballs yesterday, and i didn't get any of them in the -- in the net. >> reporter: settling back in after a year up there. tom costello, nbc news, houston. >>> that will do it for us on a friday night. i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching. good weekend. >>> tonight an "e.t." exclusive, and the o.j. case. the mu weapon discovered at o.j.'s estate? >> what marcia told us what may have been fo here at brentwood and clues from this exclusive just uncovered o.j. interview. >> my whole life i've always gotten what i want. >> what he said just after the trial. >> a lot o

kelly back on earth, both undergoing exhaustive medical exams both in space and on ground and mark kelly today. they have already taken 30 samples of blood. >> today. >> reporter: just today? >> 30 tubes. >> reporter: along his 144 million mile journey his tweets with stunny photography quickly went viral. back on earth his first meal was a banana, and after a year without a shower he dreamed of jumping back into his pool in houston. meanwhile, that whole gravity thing is taking some time. >> i tried to shoot some basketballs yesterday, and i didn't get any of them in the -- in the net. >> reporter: settling back in after a year up there. tom costello, nbc news, houston. >>> that will do it for us on a friday night. i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching. good night and have a good weekend. >>> the donald turns the gop debate into a game of whose is bigger. we've got trump just after the fireworks. >> now on "extra." >> does the donald measure up? a.j. takes matters into his own hands. the money shot no one else has. >> i have good size hands. >> "extra" break

mark kelly today. they have already taken 30 samples of blood. >> today. >> reporter: just today? >> 30 tubes. >> reporter: along his 144-million mile journey his tweets with stunning photography quickly went viral. back on earth his first meal was a banana, and after a year without a shower he dreamed of jumping houston. meanwhile, that whole gravity thing is taking some time. >> i tried to shoot some basketballs yesterday, and i didn't get any of them in the -- in the net. >> reporter: settling back in after a year up there. tom costello, nbc news, houston. >>> that will do it for us on a friday night. i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching. good night and have a good weekend. ou for watching. good night and have a >>> something about this one. it hit home for seth romero with the denver animals - - shelter. this is petunia. someone dropped her off in the middle of the night period she . she was even thinner than she was now. that means she suffered for a long time. >> this did not happen overnight. >> she seemed relieved and happy to be out of the si

kelly back on earth, both undergoing exhaustive medical exams both in space and on ground and mark kelly today. they have already blood. >> reporter: just today? sois 144 million mile journey his tweets with stunny went viral. back on earth his banana, and after a year without a shower he dreamed of jumping back into his poo in houston. meanwhile, that whole gravity thing is taking some time. >> i tried to shoot some basketballs yesterday, and i didn't get any of them in the -- in the net. >> reporter: settling back in after a year up there. tom costello, nbc news, houston. >>> that will do it for us on a friday night. i'm ltiter holt. for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching. good night and have a d>>> the dond turns the gop debate into a game of whose is bigger. we've got trump just after the fireworks. >> now on "extra." >> does the donald measure up? a.j. takes matters into his own hands. the money shot no one else has. >> i have good size hands.

kelly back on earth, both medical exams both in space and on ground and mark kelly today. they have already taken 30 samples of >> today. >> reporter: just >> 30 tubes. >> reporter: along his 144 million mile journey his tweets photography quickly went viral. back on earth his first meal was a banana, and after a year without a shower back into his pool in houston. meanwhile, that whole gravity thing is taking some time. >> i tried to shoot some basketballs yesterday, and i didn't get any of them in the -- in the net. >> reporter: settling back in after a year up there. tom costello, nbc news, houston. >>> that will do it for us on a friday night. i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching. >>> lights, camera, access. >>> you're probly the first person in american history - >> he referred to my hands, if they're small, something else must be small. >> to make a joke abt your you know what. >> nobody has ever said that about my hands. i've never heard this one. >> i'm billy bush. hard to say what's more perplexing, the fact that presidential candidat

it's a war out there and mark kelly says it's getting worse. >> i don't know where am i going to park. >> reporter: kathy patrick loves living in petaluma until it comes time to finding a parking spot for her honda. >> time to go to work this morning. and i go to get my car and that's what i came to. >> reporter: this stolen tire is just the latest theft. kathy says for months, some neighbors have been trying to intimidate her because they don't like where she is parking on a public street no less. >> i have gotten nasty notes left on my car. i have had my windshield wipers bent and turned. oh, boy, they're trying to teach me a lesson not to park here. >> reporter: neighbors say petaluma's gotten congested over the years and parking has gotten tight. james calgano says he is also a target. >> backpack cruiser stolen out of there a few months back. >> reporter: and mary carter says she has had nasty notes put on her car about parking. >> it's been h escalating and it's out of hand and not okay. >> reporter: police say theft is the number one crime here in petaluma. the neighborhood wan

kelly back on earth, both undergoing exhaustive medical exams both in space and on ground and mark kelly today. they have already taken 30 samples of blood. >> today. >> reporter: just today? >> 30 tubes. >> reporter: along his 144 million mile journey his tweets with stunny photography quickly went viral. back on earth his first meal was a banana, and after a back into his pool in houston. meanwhile, that whole gravity thing is taking some time. >> i tried to shoot some basketballs yesterday, and i didn't get any of them in the -- in the net. >> reporter: settling back in after a year up there. tom costello, nbc news, houston. >>> that will do it night. i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, thank you for good night and have a >>> tonight an "e.t." exclusive, marcia clark on the new knife and the o.j. case. the mu weapon discovered at o.j.'s estate? >> what marcia told us what may have been fo here at brentwood and clues from this exclusive just uncovered o.j. interview. >> my whole life i've always gotten what i want. >> what he said just after the trial. >> a lot of people got ri

kelly back on earth, both undergoing exhaustive medical exams both in space and on ground and mark kelly today. they have already taken 30 samples of blood. >> today. >> reporter: just today? >> 30 tubes. >> reporter: along his 144 million mile journey his tweets with stunny photography quickly went viral. back on earth his first meal was a banana, and after a year without a shower he dreamed of jumping back into his pool in houston. meanwhile, that whole gravity thing is taking some time. >> i tried to shoot some basketballs yesterday, and i didn't get any of them in the -- in the net. >> reporter: settling back in after a year tom costello, nbc news, houston. >>> that will do it for us on a friday night. i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching. good weekend. this is "jeopardy!" here are today's contestants -- an artist from decatur, georgia... a space policy analyst originally from state college, pennsylvania... and our returning champion, a writer and editor from deer park, texas... whose 3-day cash winnings total... and now here is the host of "jeopardy!" -