those fires burning around us. look how gray the skies are in oakland. you can even see small particles of ash falling on cars and some parts of the east bay. part of the reason the point fire burning near lake sonoma in sonoma county. it started over the weekend, but thanks to a cooler weather and a lot of hard work on the front lines, crews managed to double containment overnight. it's now 40% contained and remains at around 1200 acres so far, two structures destroyed, but cal fire says the fire isn't actively threatening any structures at this time, and still no word on any changes on evacuation orders. the conditions are changing here in northern california to where we're starting to see more of those large, active fires. so chief meteorologist jeff ranieri joins us now. so jeff, how's the weather going to be? it's going to be favorable for firefighters and when is all this smoke going to drift out of the bay area. so we are tracking some cooling temperatures as we head through tomorrow. and the smoke. we

should begin to see some improvements here as we move through the next 24 hours as well. so we certainly had the smoke mo through today, but a little bit complicated here. not only the smoke, but as you'll see here, we did have some clouds moving in from the west off towards the east, mixing in with that. but no doubt the sites fire now 10,000 acres, more than doubling overnight. about 90% of the smoke we're seeing in the bay area today is because of that fire behavior. and how that fire really exploded in the overnight hours. and you'll see here in the visible satellite, all of that gray traveling through the north bay in the east bay, primarily coming from the sites fire. the point fire did bring a little bit of smoke, but not a tremendous amount. this is the live view, right now here from walnut creek. and you can see the haze. so the worst air quality i'm tracking right now at this very second is saint helena. 112 particulate matter. so that's unhealthy for sensitive groups calistoga 110 lafayette 108. concord 101. and we're in the moderate range here in livermore right now at 91. now i'm starting to see a key change in the atmosphere when it

comes to that smoke. what i'm looking at right now is a wind direction shift in the upper levels. so as this loops around right here at the sites fire, you can see how the smoke plumes, the strongest smoke plumes, are now moving off towards the east. same thing with the point fire. any kind of large smoke plumes also moving off towards the east. so when it comes to our forecast on that smoke, i do think through tomorrow morning the strongest smoke is up towards the point fire also lingering over the north bay. we would continue to see any kind of smoke tomorrow, just linger over the north bay as well. i've got more looks at our forecast that's coming up in about 15 minutes. okay. thank you jeff. and we will continue to follow the fires burning and the not so clear air that comes with it throughout this newscast and online min coming up at 530, we're going to check in on the other fires in the state, keepinrefighte by. a warning tonight about an outbreak in t south bay. sant clara county public health says it is seeing spike in people

with a highly contagious bact, shigella, which causes serious abdominal stomach pains. nbc bay area's marianne favro is those cases are popping up andre what's being done to try and stop this spread. most of the recent cases have been reported in people living here in columbus park off taylor street, which is why the city has brought in additional public toilets and handwashing stations so far. santa clara county public health has confirmed three cases of the gastrointestinal illness shigella and is investigating 19 other suspected cases. children are also considered, particularly susceptible to the bacterial infection. the county says the current outbreak is centered around this homeless encampment. shigella is an extremely infectious disease. it only takes a little bit of the organism to be able to cause disease, so it's easily spread. the hyper contagious bacteria can cause diarrhea and stomach cramping, and in more serious cases, can be life threatening.

it's spread by contact with waste particles from an infected person, which is why san jose is responding with additional resources for those who may have trouble accessing clean water, we are beginning to supply drinking water and wash water to folks so that they can stay clean and avoid transmission. the city is also bringing in additional portable public toilets and handwashing stations at columbus and roosevelt parks and county public health nurses and doctors are going into encampments to help educate unsheltered residents in hopes of stopping the spread. we are working aggressively to get testing kits out to all these individuals and get those test kits back, but it is a challenge, so, you know, it will be, difficult to identify every single person that may be affected while most people with shigella will get better on their own, it's especially challenging to recover in this environment. doctors say some people have already been hospitalized and needed

antibiotics. meanwhile, the city says it's also trying to make sure people living here are not displaced in an effort to prevent the spread of the illness. the city has also alerted local homeless shelters about the outbreak in san jose, marianne favro. nbc bay area news. the annual silicon valley pain index is out and the news is not good. researchers say inequality is worse than last year. this is the fifth annual pain index created by the san jose state human rights institute. the report measures social inequality in the hope of changing policies and improving people's lives. this year, the index finds several categories have worsened, including wealth and income inequality, food insecurity, fentanyl deaths, gender wage and tech employment gaps, and homeless ness among students. just think about that in the richest country, in the richest area of that country, we have 300, almost 300 homeless

students in alum rock, and we have 900 in the east side union school district. researchers say several new policies have come about because of the pain index, including senate bill 333 making its way through the state assembly right now. it would provide 15,000 recently homeless high school seniors a guaranteed income of $1,000 a month for six months. disappointment tonight after vandals attacked an east bay elementary school. it happened at the global family elementary, which is in east oakland. the vandals destroyed a garden that stephanie ayesha curry built for the students. nbc bears velena jones explains how the school district is now responding. this vandalism happened over the weekend, and you can see that every part of this garden has been destroyed in some fashion, from the benches to the planters to the garden itself. but the school says that won't stop them from rebuilding. it's unfortunate for global family elementary principal juan vaca. this garden is much more than just where

plants live. it's also the place where education and development and mental health are nurtured and grow. the garden means a lot to our students. it's a place where they come and they learn about what goes in the ground and basically goes into their kitchen. it's more than just a garden. it's a place where folks come to self care. according to ousd officials, unrelease security camera footage shows multiple people tearing apart plants ripping out the irrigation system and breaking benches. we want to see people building up the community. we want to see them building up our schools. we want to see them supporting our kids and our and our families and our staff. and so it's very, very discouraging when we see something like this. it just it just shows us that there are people that have these ideas that that destroying is better than building. the garden was built by stephanie ayesha curry's eat learn play foundation in 2022 as a part of the school's playground remodel. while the school is unsure how much it will cost to rebuild, ousd says the district and curry's foundations mission to

building up oakland communities remains the same. we're going to be there with them for a very long time. they're you know, it's just wonderful to see how invested they are in our young people. they care so much. repairs are expected to be completed before students return to school in august, and the district says it's less interested in punishing those responsible. instead, officials believe there's a lesson for them to learn. this is not about, you know, punishment. this is not about this is about us. you know, wanting them to make better choices down the road and showing them that this is clearly not a good choice. this is this is only destructive. eat, learn. play did not respond to our request for comment. in oakland, velena jones, nbc bay area news. overseas now, russian president vladimir putin is in north korea for the first time in 24 years. north korean leader kim jong un invited putin to come and visit. th visit highlights moscow's growing relationship witrth korea and its need for munitions to continue fighting its war in

ukraine. in exchange, north korea would get economic assistance and technology to enhance its nuclear weapons and missile program. president biden unveiled a new executive action today, which shields half a million immigrants from deportation in the white house, says the aim is to help americans whose spouses or children are not citizens. but it comes in an election year in which president biden is working to court latino voters. here's here's brie jackson nbc's. president biden unveiling his latest executive actions on immigration, which includes protect undocumented spouses of u.s. citizens from deportation, allow them to work while they remain with their families in the united states. let's be clear this action still requires undocumented spouses to file all required legal paperwork to remain in the united states, requires them to pass a criminal background, checks those impacted, call the president's decision life-changing an action like this has been way overdue.

the white house says the move would shield nearly 500,000 immigrants. they must be legally married before today and have had to have lived in the u.s. for at least ten years. while advocates praised the move, some i spoke with also raised concerns. so this program, you know, certainly will be in place through the end of the year. but whether it can survive into next year depends on the election. republicans accused the president of playing election year politics well, he's obviously trying to walk a line between his progressive left that wants open borders and the electorate, which is very fed up with it. president biden agrees more needs to be done to address the immigration system, and urged congress to pass bipartisan legislation. republicans torpedoed previous efforts. i did what republicans and congress refused to do. i took action to secure our border. new hope for undocumented migrants and a decades old political fight. and president biden's executive action also includes plans to

allow daca recipients to receive work visas more quickly if they've earned degrees in higher education and are seeking a job in that same field in washington. brie jackson, nbc news. still ahead strike averted , the agreement reached that will keep over 16,000 workers in san francisco on the job and she was close to getting her masters from stanford. more than 80 years ago. now at the spry age of 105, she finally gets her diploma. an amazing journey that led one determined woman to where she is now. it's our bay area proud segment. and it is warm out here today. temperatures in the 80s for a lot of the inland valleys. i'm tracking exactly what's ahead for tomorrow. also, more updates gru, your family's lives are at stake. [ laughter ] we have to get to the safe house. what about all my friends? you'll make new friends. probably better ones. oh! a lot of emotions. less talking. more walking.

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and help save us from outages. with flex alerts, the power is ours. to new contracts, which means they will not be hitting the picket lines. more than 16,000 city and county workers were threatening to strike. the union says most city workers will now

get a $25 an hour minimum wage and a 13% cost of living adjustment over three years to offset inflation. registered nurses got what they wanted when it comes to staffing and muni workers are satisfied with new safety measures. the new agreements come after two months of bargaining. all right, this college graduation season, there are thousands of students who have been waiting for years for the big moment, but none have been waiting as long as one stanford grad. not even close. our garvin thomas has her amazing story in tonight's bay area. proud this past sunday, stanford university held its commencement exercise. the ceremony for undergraduates ran about a half hour behind schedule. welcome, everyone. so those getting their graduate degrees had to wait a bit to receive their diplomas. oh, really? which did not bother virginia hislop in the least. what's a few more minutes to wait for something she earned back in in 1940? yes, 84 years

ago, the now 105 year old virginia was working on her master's degree in education at stanford. virginia was almost done when, as she puts it, life intervened. it was the eve of world war two, and virginia's husband, george, was a newly appointed second lieutenant in the u.s. army. his unit was called up, and virginia soon found herself 1500 miles away from stanford, fort sill, oklahoma, which is not exactly my idea of a place to take a honeymoon, but i didn't have much choice in the matter. there were soon two children to raise, and virginia never got back to that advanced degree in education, which it should be noted, never hindered virginia from a lifetime of work in education. no had absolutely no effect. virginia spent decades on boards and committees at

every level of schooling, from kindergarten to college, in her new hometown of yakima, washington gave it a great deal of thought and tried to improve the education where i lived. that's not going to stand. what virginia didn't give a lot of thought to, though i've had that trouble before, was that degree. but recently, her son in law contacted stanford and learned something amazing. you see, at the time virginia left stanford in 1940, she had all the credit she needed to graduate just hadn't completed a master's thesis. well, since then, that thesis requirement has been dropped, meaning virginia legitimately has all the credit she needs. and has earned that degree. and so at the graduate school of education commencement , alongside 160 members of the class of 2024, there was a single member of the class of 1940. and as virginia got up on stage, the crowd got up on their

feet. virginia views it all as recognition, not just of what she did 80 plus years ago, but of all the work in education she has done since. my goodness, i avoid for a long time. sanzang it's a lesson the rest of the day's graduates would do well to take away a diploma is nice, sure, but not necessarily needed to go out and make the world a better place. and i do think i made a difference in our community at stanford university. garvin thomas. nbc bay area news. that is my favorite story. me too. i don't know why that story's made me so emotional. it's just like it's so impressive what she's done. exactly. she's so accomplished so much in her life. and to cap it off with this is just so beautiful. never too late. never. she bring that to home, right? my goodness, that's a great story. congratulations. yes. congratulate gratulations.

virginia. awesome. okay, let's talk about our weather. it looks like it's going to cool down a bit. it is. and i think it's going to be pretty substantial for tomorrow. we should also start to see some improvements when it comes to that smoke. we're tracking both of those things. let's go ahead and roll it right into the smoke. because i know a lot of you, especially through the north and the east bay, really notice it today. and we should say the original smoke forecast yesterday was showing excellent conditions here for a lot of the bay area. but the problem we got into and why this looks like it does, is because of the site's fire up in colusa county that more than doubled overnight. so all of that smoke came down to the bay area you know, about 90% of what you're seeing here is coming from that fire up into colusa county. so hang tight. we're going to talk more about what's happening with that air quality in a second, but we'll get you into the current temperature 86 right now in walnut creek. we'll stay in the 80s through 7:00 and then some 70s here, eight and nine 60s later on tonight. so as we take a look at the weather

pattern, pretty complicated. lots of layers here happening. i think the main headline here is the storm track is continuing to move closer to us. so we're going to see a smaller system develop for tomorrow. so that's going to help temperatures to drop. also going to get some fog going back at the coastline. and really try to push some of the strongest smoke plumes off towards the east. but i still think we'll get some smoke and some fog actually mixing in, especially over the north bay and all of this weather pattern right here is continuing to help to keep hot 100 away, at least for right now. so as we move it into that air quality forecast, i do think for tomorrow morning we'll still see a smoke advisory in the north bay right now. everybody else should be good to moderate. we'll still have some haze. and again this all depends on the fire behavior. but right now we still think we'll see some smoke lingering over the north bay as we roll through tomorrow morning. what you're seeing on this map, this is the fog. so we will have some low clouds mixing in tomorrow. so as you wake up for a lot of the bay area, you're going to be dealing with low clouds. and also fog

trying to come back. so not everything you see is going to be smoke. we'll see some areas of fog linger here through the afternoon right at the immediate coastline. morning temperatures. we're going to start to down here a little bit chillier with 53 here for the south peninsula, tri valley 51. look at this up to the north bay also coming in at 50. and for the east bay 53. let's get you those temperatures here as we head through your wednesday forecast down here across south bay. heavy to 78 in san jose. so a lot of spots dropping 5 to 10 degrees cooler tomorrow. i think it will make it a little more manageable out here. 75 in vallejo, 80 walnut creek, 68 in oakland. over to redwood city, 75, san francisco 64 in the outer sunset. and for the north bay here. temps in the upper 70s from santa rosa, right back to napa. now we are in for a quick blast of heat. once we hit the first part of the weekend 95, i wanted to show you this because it's only a one day event. we should start to see it drop back to the 80s as we roll through next week's forecast right here in san francisco. we'll see some low 70s as we

head into friday, and also saturday, and then 68 on sunday, and right here for the inland valleys. we're going to 90 on friday, 96 on saturday. and then we would drop it right after that. i'm still thinking about how inspiring that story was. just this really awesome. amazing. thanks jeff. all right. coming up, santa clara nvidia continues to make major moves around the world. now the most valuable public company. which coany it knockedmp

in the world. shares of the chip maker surged more than 3% today, lifting the company's market cap to $3.34 trillion, passing

former number one microsoft earlier this month. nvidia hit 3 trillion for the first time, passing cupertino based apple shares for the eye darling are up more than 170% so far this year. amid the ai boom, nvidia's rise has been so rapid that the company has not yet been added to the dow jones, which is the stock benchmark of 30 of the most valuable us companies. meanwhile, the s&p rose to a fresh record as nvidia continued its rise, and you can see fashion house ralph lauren, along with members of team usa, ringing in the closing bell today after the designer revealed the opening and closing ceremony outfits for the paris olympics, the dow closed up 57 points, the s&p up 14 and the nasdaq up five, more than a million vehicles recalled because of a software glitch. manufacturers stellantis says the glitch disables rear view camera. impacted cars include suvs, trucks, vans under the jeep, dodge, chrysler and ram brands. now, some good news

for vehicle owners the online recall can be done from your driveway. you just need to accept a software update on the media dashboard for the repair to happen. stellantis says it's had no reports of any injuries or crashes because of it. astronauts hoping to return home on boeing's first flight from space wl have to waitil

has been delayed. nasa says it needs more time to make sure the craft is ready to come home. t nasa astronauts were launched aboard starliner on june 5th. they arrived at the international space station after a 24 hour flight, during which the spacecraft encountered four helium leaks and five failures of its thrusters. now, this is the starliner's first flight with astronauts. nasa is hoping to certify the spacecraft for routine astronaut missions. the starliner's new return date is now scheduled for june 26th. don't forget, you can watch our newscast 24/7 on roku and other streaming platforms as raj mathai joins us now with what's coming up next at 530. here's what we're working on. could chevron be forced to pay millions of dollars in new taxes ? that's what a group in richmond is asking for. the important meeting happening now,

that could have major ramifications down the line. also, from the north to bay southern california, fires continue to burn. we have the latest updates on some of the biggest wildfires in the state. and he may not hit or throw, but he is the newest member of the giants. sort of the impact an artist is having on the team and fans. welcome back. the news at 530 starts right now. thanks so much for joining us. i'm janelle wang and i'm raj mathai. we begin with the high stakes showdown. big oil against environmentalists in contra costa county. there's a grassroots effort to tax chevron, which is one of the area's largest employers. this new tax could cost chevron millions of dollars. here's nbc's thom jensen as chevron refines nearly 250,000 barrels of oil per day at its richmond refinery. now, local groups who say the refineries process and