right now on "nbc bay area news tonight," san francisco loses a community legend. we remember the life of reverend cecil williams, whose impact reached far beyond glide memorial church. >> cecil, however, was dramatically different from any other pastor.

>> six decades of helping and praying for san francisco. also, employees of the antioch school district say they're being bullied by their boss. tonight, our reporting leading to a new call for an investigation. plus -- >> our frustration has been the one size fits all approach of grants pass should not apply to san francisco. >> the homelessness crisis has reached the supreme court. how a case they heard today from a small town in oregon could have a big impact here in the bay area. good evening. i'm raj mathai. it's a busy start to the week. a lot of big headlines on this monday. let's start with new developments involving a san jose fire captain. he's accused of sending lewd photos to someone that he thought was a 13-year-old girl. we now know that captain is one of 24 people arrested in an undercover sting. today the sacramento county

sheriff released video of that sting that led to the arrest of 24 suspected child predators, including a postal worker, a sunday school teacher, and a former san jose fire captain. his name, spencer parker. he quit the service the day after he was put on leave. parker is charged with three felonies, including attempted lewd acts with a child, a person he thought was a 13-year-old girl but was actually an undercover cop. >> i happened to ask myself similar questions every day when i come to work. do i have a vision for the organization? do i have a plan to move us forward? am i prepared to absorb the issues that come to my desk every day? this is an extremely difficult issue that came to my desk, and i am here to process it appropriately. >> city of san jose is conducting its own criminal probe, not just sacramento. mayor matt mahan says he's asked the san jose police department to look into all of parker's actions and behavior while on

the job to see if he or anyone else broke the law. also this evening, tension across a lot of college campuses across the country. students are protesting the israel-hamas war. our skyranger was overhead at uc berkeley. you can see sprowl hall right in front there. a lot of protesters gathered. students actually set up tents and are vowing to stay until uc berkeley divests from companies doing business with israel. a university spokesperson sent us a statement saying the school has no plans to change its investment policies and practices. on the east coast now, a lot of tension at columbia university. this is the sixth day of protests, calling for an end to israeli military action in gaza. in connecticut, more than 40 people were arrested at yale. similar protests have been taking place at m.i.t., boston university, emerson college, and tufts. well, this is a significant night for jewish people. it's the beginning of passover.

temples and centers across the bay area are stepping up security. in los gatos, congregation sheer hab dash says it will have security guards on site when it hosts 150 members for a community seder dinner tomorrow night. at temple beth abraham in oakland, they've taken a number of steps to bolster security, not just today or last week but over the past few months. more cameras, secure doors, and bullet-resistant windows. >> almost all synagogues have had to hire private guards, have had to make sure that we have all the windows and doors secure, cameras. we are fortunate to have received a grant recently from the state of california. so going forward, we will have even more security. >> the fbi says a number of anti-jewish hate crimes, the investigations in terms of those numbers in the u.s. has tripled since the beginning of the israel-hamas war. let's move on now. we have lost a bay area icon. reverend cecil williams has died. his impact well beyond san

francisco's glide memorial church. he inspired churches and communities across the country and across the world. we were there for his 94th birthday celebration last september. reverend williams was a founder of glide memorial in the tenderloin and spent his life ministering everyone from celebrities to the down and out. he came here to san francisco in 1963 and led the church for 60 years before he stepped away last year to focus on his family and his health. he grew the congregation to 10,000 people and became a well-known activist on issues from gay rights to homelessness and the aids epidemic. 60 years later, glide memorial still stands as a place for people to come together and to help those in need. >> the tenderloin had become essentially what it is today, which means church wouldn't work with that group of people.

cecil, however, understood exactly how to make the church work with that group of people and for that group of people to work within the church. >> those persons who have been so committed to servicing the needs of others just leave a major void because there are too many greedy people in this world. >> joining us now is the current minister of glide memorial church, marvin k. white. minister white, thanks for being with us on this evening. so emotional, i'm guessing, for so many people. what set reverend williams apart from everyone else and for so long? >> yeah. i think it's important to remember that he was a man from the south. he was a young man from san angelo, texas, that the tenderloin was not his context. but by him coming here, he

proved to anyone that you just have to stand up for the people, that you have to come and be of service, that you have to believe in the social gospel. that you know that it's about faith and works. so that's what he inspired everyone to do no matter who you are, you can be a part of alleviating suffering in this world and bringing us closer to liberation. >> he really embodied so much of what's right in san francisco. how do you plan to carry on his legacy, and that is no easy task. >> yeah. i think the blueprint that he and our dearly departed co-founder is clear that we need to keep the doors open, that we need to make the welcome even more extravagant, that we need to be prepared that post-fentanyl crisis, that there's still somebody else coming who will need social services, who will need advocacy and social justice work, and who will need spiritual healing as well. so if we follow that blueprint,

we will be prepared and be able to carry out his legacy. >> we talk about legendary leaders in san francisco, dianne feinstein, harvey milk, the list goes on. is he right there in your opinion in terms of his impact to this community? >> oh, my god, that great cloud of witnesses that include dianne feinstein, that includes harvey milk, that includes maya angelou, that they are all together, and as ancestors and of service to us right now. there's just so much more that we can do. he is sitting right there with them all, cheering us on and guiding us as well. >> we know this is emotional. what's the mood of the church right now? >> yeah. there is -- there is a lot of people who are stunned, a lot of people who really understand how much they loved him and how much he loved them. everyone has a story about being

seen and heard and made to feel special by cecil. and people are weighing those relationships right now, and we're holding each other because that's what we knew to do. immediately people started filing into this sanctuary that holds all of this celebration, but also holds all of this grief, all of the people who need sanctuary. they knew to come here. and this is left by the reverend cecil williams. this place has been readied for this moment, that we knew to come right here. >> minister marvin k. white, we appreciate your time. you've made -- you all, glide memorial, has made such a big impact in this community. thanks for your time on this night. have a good evening. >> thank you so much, sir. we're going to take a short

welcome back to "nbc bay area news tonight." we have an update now on a story that we first broke last week. a school district supervisor accused of bullying his employees. tonight there is a new call for an independent investigation. this is happening at the antioch unified school district. employees say not only are they being mistreated by their boss, but that the superintendent is turning a blind eye to his bad behavior. we're talking about maintenance director ken turnage. among the allegations, he's accused of putting an employee's desk -- you see it right

there -- on the roof. today the antioch superintendent, stephanie anello, is calling for a third-party independent investigation into the district's handling of this matter. the superintendent did not provide a timeline or details on who will conduct the investigation. some board members say she should be calling for the investigation -- she shouldn't be calling for this investigation at all. >> because it's not an independent investigation. how can we have an independent investigation that's investigating a matter that concerns herself? so, again, it's a culture of protecting people and questionable decision-making and failure to find accountability in the school district that leads to situations that ultimately harm our staff, our students, and our community. >> let's bring in our investigative reporter candice nguyen. two people, i believe, are under the spotlight or in hot water here, the maintenance director and the superintendent. you exposed this story last

week. where are we tonight? where are they tonight? what's their status? >> right now they haven't responds to me. i reached out to turnage. i reached out to superintendent anello as well as her husband because there's allegations that this supervisor is getting away with his bad behavior because he's good friends with her as well as her husband, the former police chief. but after all these complaints that the district has been getting for months from many different employees, still no response from them. i have been asking them for a statement, even went to a recent board meeting. still nothing as of today. >> we've heard from a lot of employees there. how long have these bullying complaints been happening? >> we're talking months. i do know turnage has been there for two years in his current position. i've been looking at the complaints from the employees themselves. i've been talking to district officials who have been receiving the complaints themselves. so several months, possibly more than a year. >> are there calls for the superintendent to resign because now it's going to get to some serious high-level things, not that that other employee,

turnage, is not high level. >> now the question is who is allowing this to happen? what are you doing about it? so board president antonio hernandez, who you heard from a moment ago, he is calling for the superintendent to resign. this comes after he first tried to call for a special meeting to discuss disciplinary action, but three out of those five board members did not show up to that meeting he was calling for just last friday, just a day after our report. hernandez points out the irony and the inappropriate nature, he says, of now an official, the superintendent who's being called to resign, now calling for an investigation that likely involves her. >> just to be clear, we do not know who's running this independent investigation. she has not disclosed that. >> in her email to board of trustees, she did not provide a timeline. and as you mentioned, more importantly, who's conducting this investigation? she said it's a third-party independent, did not provide a name or agency. this is a critical piece of information, raj, that right now remains a mystery to the public.

>> we're talking about employees. we're talking about district employees here as well. are parents getting involved at some point because at some point, they're going to start hearing about all this, and they're going to start jumping in. have we heard from them yet? >> i've heard from a lot of anonymous people. i will say i've heard from a lot of employees, who have come on the record to talk about this. some parents as well. there's a lot of nerves right now. your kids are going there, and there's a lot of money involved. i did hear from a group of students actually, who said they're concerned. they're saying, hey, we don't know the details. but at the end of the day, these are the officials that oversee our district, that affects our teachers, our maintenance workers, our cafeteria ladies. and the students themselves are interested in all this, and they are asking for the board of trustees to lead this investigation, not the superintendent. >> we could be at the beginning stages of all of this. we'll continue to follow your reporting. thank you. up next, we're going to check in with jeff's forecast. also, the supreme court hearing about

welcome back to "nbc bay area news tonight." one of the biggest issues around here and in so many parts of the country is homelessness. today the supreme court stepped in to a case that could determine how local cities deal with homelessness. the court must decide when san francisco and oakland and virtually every other city in america can clear homeless encampments. >> homelessness is not a crime.

>> reporter: today, two rallies by homeless advocates, one in san francisco, the other in washington, d.c. out front of the supreme court. the case is based in grants pass, oregon. that's a small city outside of medford. that city passed an ordinance that allows people to be fined for sleeping or camping outside. the supreme court took up the case after the lower 9th circuit court issued an injunction. the circuit court issued strict limits on moving homeless people. critics of that injunction, including san francisco, say the injunction makes it nearly impossible to prevent tent cities from popping up around town. but homeless advocates say this move is the first step in getting real help for the unhoused. the supreme court will not issue its ruling until june, so we've still got a couple months here. the conservative justices, who have the majority on the bench, appeared more receptive to the idea of letting cities set their own rules rather than allowing a judge to set the rules. joining us now, san francisco

city attorney david chiu. david, nice to have you back on the program. just to be clear, do you want the supreme court to overturn this injunction, and how is that injunction hurting san francisco specifically? >> so san francisco, we've been under an injunction for about a year and a half based in part on this case, grants pass, that the supreme court considered today, which has really put us in an impossible situation. we have invested billions of dollars in recent years with a compassionate shelter and services first approach, where we offer shelter to individuals on the streets. but unfortunately, because of this injunction, we have been prohibited from also being able to enforce a half a dozen other laws in these contexts, which has meant that it's been difficult for us to also have the use of other tools that provide incentives for folks to take us up on our offers of shelter. >> and you're well aware of the eighth amendment, the cruel and

unusual punishment here. is this cruel to fine or to penalize or to move homeless people? >> well, the grants pass case and a prior case from a few years before that were really the first two cases in the country to suggest that the eighth amendment could be applied in this context. we are trained to make sure that we're getting our services and shelters to folks. but unfortunately these cases have really upset the balance and the kind of tools that we're using to both provide compassion on our streets but also ensure that our streets are safe and clean. >> you filed what's called an amicus brief on behalf of grants pass, oregon, the city north of us. in layman's terms, can you explain what that means? >> well, i should just be clear, grants pass is very different from san francisco. in that city, they've invested very little in homeless services. they have had prohibitions virtually 24/7 throughout their entire city against unhoused residents. in our city, we've invested a

ton in a compassionate approach to homelessness, and our laws have had reasonable limitations when it comes to how we enforce. now, today we did hear many justices who pointed out that the complicated issues on the streets are probably best handled by local cities and policymakers, not judges. we certainly think that's the case for what we're trying to do in san francisco, where this injunction that's in place doesn't reflect the complexity, the nuances, and the day-to-day issues that come up every time our homeless outreach workers are engaging with our unhoused neighbors. >> what happens if we chat in june, if the supreme court does not rule in your favor and essentially the injunction stays in place? >> well, unfortunately that will mean the status quo will continue. san francisco, we've been in an impossible situation when it comes to trying to address homeless encampments on our streets. so that would mean that what we see in the streets would continue to -- would continue

on. >> we appreciate your time. city attorney david chiu. have a good evening. >> thanks for having me on. let's move on now and bring in our chief meteorologist, jeff ranieri. as we kick off the week. >> hey there, raj. we did have some 80s today across the bay area, but numbers are already beginning to drop with a strong ocean breeze and that fog at the coastline. look at this. down 18 degrees colder in santa rosa compared to this time yesterday. down 18 in concord. down 7 here in san jose, leaving us with a very cool 63 in livermore. let me show you more details on how things will be playing out for us tomorrow. we'll start it off with the 50s and the chance of some fog as we roll through the morning. then as we head through the day tomorrow, temperatures on a solid 10-degree drop. so instead of some of those 80s inland, we're back down to the loet 70s. so we'll start it off at 8:00 a.m. around 53 degrees. then we'll be into those low 70s by 3:00 and 4:00.

up here towards santa rosa, that's the one spot, though, that is going to get back into the 60s through the north bay along with napa at 65. and you go out towards martinez, concord, and livermore will be in the low 70s. 70 in san jose. 70 in palo alto. beyond this, we will see a system drop down by thursday and friday. that's going to drop our temperatures even a little bit more and even bring the chance of some showers. right now it doesn't look like a whole lot, but the possibility of some scattered hit-and-miss chances here. thursday and friday, wind gusts also up 15 to 30. should dry out this weekend as we'll be in the low to mid-70s. so huge change from this weekend. it was nice to get a quick blast of heat, though, for sure. >> it was 80 degrees at the giants game yesterday. it was great. >> that's good. >> thank you, jeff. as we wrap up, mario lopez just getting started with "access hollywood." >> we're going to begin tonight's "access" with even more records being broken by taylor swift's double album release, which had everyone

speculating about who and what the song lyrics are referring to. guess what? now taylor herself is breaking down the meaning of a few of those songs. then it was a reunion as the spice girls gathered to celebrate victoria beckham's 50th birthday. but they weren't the only stars in attendance. we're going to take you inside of that. and add to that beyoncé's mom, tina knowles, just compared zendaya to her daughter. zendaya very flattered but also feeling the pressure of the compliment. she also has a great reaction to this gala gown suggestion. it's all just moments away on "access hollywood." coming up tonight on prime time here on nbc, an all new episode of "the voice" at 8:00. that's followed by "deal or no deal island" at 10:00. then our 11:00 news live and local. before we go, today is earth day. you see governor brown -- excuse me -- governor newsom and first partner jennifer siebel newsom, grabbed a shovel to dedicate the state's newest park.

this is pictures of the ceremony at dos rios. it's been ten years since a state park has opened here. dos rios is about 1,600 acres and set to welcome visitors june 12th. it's also the largest floodplain restoration project in california to restore habitat for threatened and endangered wildlife. beautiful shots there. that's going to do it for us at 7:00. for everyone here at nbc bay area, thanks for being with us. we hope you enjoy your evening, and we hope to see you back at 11:00.

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