san francisco's open i in hot water. a battle with hollywood star scarlett johansson. it's all about her voice. voice mode in chatgpt allows you to talk to the ai using spoken language. openai says it's only a coincidence, but johansson isn't

buying it. the feud that's developing tonight, also east bay leaders are sounding the alarm on an ambulance shortage. why buying more vehicles and hiring more emts might not solve the problem. plus, the man convicted of attacking the husband of congresswoman nancy pelosi will be sentenced again. the error the judge made prompting this move. does it mean a different prison sentence ? there we go. and ever wonder what it's like to run the bay to breakers? we've got a unique perspective of san francisco's zany annual event. good evening, i'm raj mathai. happy monday to you. we're going to start off with some of the headlines that we are watching at this hour. hundreds of university workers are now on strike. this is all about the israel-hamas war and the uc system's response to all of those campus protests. the first group to walk off the job,

academic employees down at uc santa cruz. the strike was announced last friday and was voted on by members of the uaw local 4811. that union represents about 48,000 grad student employees, tutors, researchers and other workers statewide. again, this one started at uc santa cruz today, union members are demanding, among other things, amnesty for all students and faculty who have been arrested or are facing disciplinary action. we have the right to demand changes in our workplaces, and here we are out on strike and you expect us to go on as long as it takes for the uc to resolve the unfair labor practice charge the ulp. this could end today. this could end tomorrow, but we are willing to stay out for as long as it takes. the union is promising more strikes at the other uc campuses. uc leaders say the strikes are illegal and have filed an unfair labor practice charge. uc leaders are hoping the state will issue a cease and

desist order to stop these strikes. well, 450,000 california health care workers may have a little bit to wait a little bit longer before they can see an increase to their minimum wage. last year, governor newsom signed sb 525. that law raises the health care minimum wage to 25 bucks an hour beginning june first. so right around the corner. but the state is now facing a severe budget deficit. and with two weeks to go before this law takes effect, the governor says changes may be coming. the governor says many of his budget negotiations are centering around possible delays or changes to the minimum wage bill. the state has said the bill could cost about $4 billion a year. governor newsom has promised a resolution in the coming weeks. well, the plan to bring high speed rail to the bay area is progressing. it's moving forward. today, our first look inside the underground station in san francisco, it's called the train box. look at this. a massive underground cavern,

really under the transbay transit center. it doesn't look like much now, but eventually it will have six train tracks for caltrain and high speed trains. here you go. going underground in this simulation, speaker meredith pelosi was on hand today. you see her there to announce the $3.4 billion to help finish the project. i mean, i take that the new york, boston , new york, washington all the time for civic events and the rest. this is in a class all by itself. it's something so very different. yeah, $3.4 billion from the feds. the project is still short, though, about $2 billion. the transit authority in charge, the plans to start construction on the tunnel sometime next year. they expect caltrain to begin service here in about ten years. well, here's a fascinating story that's developing tonight. one of the bay area's most famous companies is being called out by actress scarlett johansson. chatgpt is now pulling one of its newest

features. the problem? it sounds too familiar to scarlett johansson. here's what we're going to do. first, take a listen to the chatgpt version. chatgpt. how are you? i'm doing fantastic. thanks for asking. how about you? how's your day going? i'm doing great. so yeah. last week, san francisco based openai debuted its new version of the chatgpt chatbot. it can answer your questions by actually speaking to you. there are a few different versions of the voice. you can choose. this particular one is known as sky people. immediately started to comment that sky sounds a lot like scarlett johansson in the movie called her. here's johansson's voice. and then chatgpt they. where did you get that name from? i gave it to myself, actually. voice mode in chatgpt allows you to talk to the ai using spoken language. it can understand your voice commands or questions and respond. all right. openai says the similarity was not intentional, but today, johansson releasing a statement

saying that openai ceo, the high profile sam altman reached out to her. to johannsson last year about voicing a chat bot she declined, her statement says, in part, when i heard the release demo, i was shocked, angered and in disbelief that mr. altman would pursue a voice that sounded so eerily similar to mine that my closest friends and news outlets could not tell the difference. joining us now is our business tech reporter scott budman. this is just the beginning from what i can see with all this. first of all, is this legal chatgpt did they do anything wrong or does it just sound like her voice? if chatgpt is telling the truth and they used a different actress, no, it's not illegal. but they didn't use scarlett johansson's voice, then they don't have to pay her or get her permission. what she is saying i think, is that they're really trying to emulate her, and that puts them in kind of a murky place. i'm not a lawyer, but i don't think emulation is against the law. as long as you use somebody else.

and we're saying this could be the beginning of a lot of things to come. people that are trying to emulate how she looks or talks or anyone that's a celebrity, right? this is why hollywood is so, so concerned about this. and they should be concerned. and openai and sam altman are making a huge mistake right now. why? because even if they're not crossing the line into illegality, everybody right now check your twitter feed is talking about how wrong this is and how they've done scarlett johansson wrong. even if they haven't legally done her wrong. and ethics are so important here because you have the new york times suing openai. you have authors suing these ai companies. now you have scarlett johansson, a very big player in hollywood, saying they're doing it wrong. they really need to walk a much better line than they're doing in getting people's trust. and this just looks really bad. yeah, the court of public opinion against them right now, this is all developing literally today and late today. johannson sent out that statement. has openai responded publicly or i'm sure they're behind closed doors figuring something out? i'm sure they're trying to figure something out. we haven't seen

anything publicly yet. sam altman did make a statement saying a little earlier that we did not use scarlett johansson's voice in any similarity is unintentional, but it sounds like it. regardless if they did, or i must say, i'm one of those news organizations whose eyebrows raised when i heard sky compared to the movie her. they sound really similar. and again, similar is in this case not what openai needs to do to win people's trust. could other hollywood types or athletes or famous entertainers kind of jump on board with scarlett johansson and say, hey, we're this isn't the first time where we want to, we want to do this. stand strong. i think all those people you named are probably right now not just jumping on board, but telling their lawyers, hey, look out just in case somebody is using my likeness or my voice without letting us know and without proper compensation. because the trust level of openai right now is at an all time low. and so everyone is going to be watching what they do next and listening, i should say, to what they do next very closely because of this scandal, let's call it what it is. this is developing technology, especially here in the bay area

and the silicon valley is be curious to see what that next step is, because we all need to kind of progress together here. we do, and the company needs to progress with trust. there's so much money on the line here and so many jobs, especially here in the bay area. and if this organization, this fast and tech has got a problem with trust, but usually not this quickly, openai has to turn things around and prove that they can be trusted and trusted to not steal people's likenesses and voices. okay the ball is in sam altman's court. we will be hearing from him, i'm sure, very soon. thank you. scott. you bet. let's move on now. leaders in contra costa county say their emergency medical services are in a state of crisis and ambulance shortage . the county fire chief says an increase in 911 calls a shortage of paramedics and not enough space at local hospitals are all contributing to a serious problem. the county standard for offloading patients at the hospital is now 20 minutes by many are waiting up, but many are waiting up to 90 minutes to

be taken inside to the e.r, waiting 90 minutes. and while the ambulances wait outside the hospital, they can't respond to other calls. so that creates a backlog. last thursday and friday, the county reached level zero for several hours. that means there were zero ambulances available. from the moment that somebody calls 911, there is a constraint on the supply of ambulances. there is also a constraint on the supply of hospital beds and emergency department beds. so the entirety of the system is stressed and more people are leveraging emergency departments, for simple things that they could possibly be use urgent care for instead. joining us now, contra costa county supervisor diane burgess. supervisor burgess, thanks for being with us. this seems like a really bad mix here. increase 911 calls overcrowded ers and a staffing shortage. how do we get to this point? well, i want to point out that this is not unique to

contra costa county. matter of fact, it's not even unique to the bay area. it's a national issue, and it is a crisis. as someone that has had to wait for an ambulance, those seconds, minutes are excruciating. so it is a crisis. however, there's a lot of things that we can do better. and i'm glad we're talking about it, because i think part of the things that we can do better as the chief said, is utilizing our primary care physicians, our urgent cares, and knowing when to not call for an ambulance or go to the emergency room is really important. yeah, you bring up a good point there. is there something that you can do as a county supervisor to help fix this issue, like in real time, tangibly? good question. and that's part of the reason why i brought this up, because i did want this to be a discussion. i don't want people to be surprised that there are these times when there are less

ambulances or no ambulances available. but i do want to point out that as of, last year, we added 18 basic life support ambulances per day. so we've decreased the amount of level zeros that we had last year. also, with our contra costa fire, we have paramedics on every fire truck, so just because an ambulance isn't showing up, that doesn't mean nobody's showing up. we do have people showing up to help when they call for help. what are hospitals saying about this? obviously i'm guessing here you've talked to many of the local hospitals. what's their what's their response to your conversations or inquiries? i've talked to leaders in the health care plans in the hospitals, in the clinics, and everybody is very concerned about the idea that they are, that people are not aware of how to better manage their own needs. and so that means, like i said before,

have a relationship with your primary care physician, fill your prescriptions, take your medications. and if you haven't an urgent situation, you should be calling your, urgent care or your advice nurse instead of going to the emergency room, which is really for emergencies. yeah really, really good point and very good reminder. supervisor diane burgess from contra costa county. appreciate your time. have a good evening. thanks for talking about this. of course. one more note. we did reach out to john muir health. the hospital acknowledges it's experiencing unprecedented patient volumes and offloading challenges in a statement, it reads in part, john muir health must be able to continue to use a clinically driven triage process to treat those with the most urgent needs first, rather than being pressured to meet an off load standard. up next, will the 30 year prison sentence stick? a court error for the man convicted of attacking congresswoman pelosi's husband

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husband of congresswoman nancy pelosi. he will be resentenced because the court made a mistake

. david depape was sentenced last friday. the judge gave him 30 years in prison for assaulting paul pelosi inside the pelosi home in san francisco . he was also sentenced 20 years for the attempted kidnaping of nancy pelosi, who was in washington, dc at the time. the two sentences will run concurrently, which means the maximum amount he can serve is 30 years. here's the mistake, though. during the sentencing, the judge is required to give the defendant in this case, depape, a chance to speak. that did not happen. so the sentencing will have to happen again on may 28th. joining us now is one of our legal analysts, paula canny. paula, nice to have you back on the program. this seems like a high level mistake. how common is this? well, it is a high level mistake. it's very uncommon in high profile cases that judges make this mistake. but it happens. judges are people, too. but the failure to ask a

defendant, it's a there's all these rules that tell judges, these are the things you do when you impose sentence. and in federal rule 32. a judge must, that is, they're required to ask the defendant if they want to say anything. and so because the judge didn't do that, the defendant can appeal it. but since the prosecution realized the mistake, the judge realized the mistake within 14 days of a mistake of this nature and the court on their own motion or on the prosecution motion, can set a new sentencing date. so it's going to be may 28th, and the judge is going to say to the defendant, do you want to speak? and then the question becomes, is he going to speak? and if he does speak, is he going to say anything that would cause the judge to change her sentence? yeah. and this is interesting. could the judge, could the judge reduce the sentence, add more years to the sentence? i mean, is anything possible here? well

i mean, anything is possible. i think that actually the judge gave the maximum sentence for each of the two crimes. she chose to run them concurrent. that is the same time. i mean, the other thing that's interesting about this is the defendant also has pending state court cases, and they already had moved him over to 850. bryant to deal with the state court prosecution. so the government had to file a writ of habeas corpus ad prosequi, which is, you know, bring that body back to federal court. so they'll have to move him out of san francisco jurisdiction, even though san francisco, those lawyers are going to want to deal with with the issue. but yes, she could theoretically change the sentence. but i mean, remember paul pelosi sent a super powerful letter. speaker nancy pelosi and a pretty powerful letter. but, i mean, that's a lot of time. 30 years.

and he's looking at a life sentence in the state court case. so you bring up a lot of time. we actually spoke to dapsone outside of the court last friday. take a listen. i think that's quite sad, i think that's a really long time because if you think about it right, he's already nearly 50. he's he's basically it's just a death sentence. yeah. pretty compelling. your thoughts about that. could that play if the father does spoke and said those sentences sentiments i mean maybe, maybe, maybe. but i mean it's a super politically charged thing. i mean, the defense lawyers have argued when you look at the other sentences handed down for similar conduct or compare it even to the, for example, the sentences that were, you know, handed down regarding the january six insurrection, this sentence is five times the maximum sentence for any of those sentences. so this is this is a hefty sentence, and it's certainly

something that an appellate court is going to review on the appeal, because i mean, he'll even with good time work time, he'll be over 70 when he gets out. but the older i get, the younger that seems we will we will continue to track this resentencing of david de paula kearny street. thanks for your insight and analysis. as always. of course. let's move on now. as usual, it was wild and wacky. yesterday's bay to breakers, san francisco's colorful race from the bay to the breakers at ocean beach, three, two one. there we go. so here we go. it's like a big party. our very own nbc digital journalist, jonathan bloom. there he is. he ran the 12 k race with his dad for the third year in a row. good to see the blooms out there. not just the blooms, but tens of thousands of other people ran, walked, jogged and even danced their way up and down the streets. all sorts of costumes, colorful costumes. while some were nothing at all. we won't

show you the naked people, but they're out there. the race was started after the 1906 earthquake. actually, a few years after two. elevate the spirit of san francisco and it does each and every year. speaking of which, we'll take you outside in san francisco. now live. look at the beautiful golden gate bridge. jeff is going to join us, talk about our workweek forecast as we head toward memorial day. sy withta

we've got some, we've got some great weather and what a great weekend it was. also, jeff. yes. monday, tuesday, wednesday. really beautiful weather here. sunshine, temperatures warming up tomorrow from this area. high pressure. there is some unusual rainfall up towards washington and oregon, but for right now looks like it's going to stay there. let me show you more details on this and some huge changes by the upcoming weekend. we'll begin right here with tomorrow morning temperatures here in the 50s under mostly sunny skies. then as we roll through the day from that area, high pressure to heat temperatures up a few more degrees. so we're going to do it . we're going back up into the 80s throughout those inland valleys. 86 in concord, 82, san jose, 85, in napa, right near the bay, 75 in oakland and 60s at the coastline. now, i did want to show you real quick, if you're doing any traveling, there will be severe weather, chance of more tornado outbreaks in the midwest, so watch out for that. if you're doing any kind of traveling. otherwise, back here will be tracking two different cold fronts later on in the week. look at the

difference it's going to make on the 7-day forecast from 85 tomorrow. inland to 67 on saturday. so for memorial day weekend, by monday we'll be up to that 77. that will be a lot better. but yeah, the weekend is going to start off chilly for us. that is chilly. those are fall temperatures. thank you jeff. as we wrap up mario lopez just getting started with access hollywood. all right. tonight's access digs deeper into the impact of diddy's apology message after the release of that disturbing video of his attack on then girlfriend cassie ventura back in 2016, he's completely changed his tune after initially denying any wrongdoing at all. so does this development help the feds as they develop their case against diddy? access is going to break it all down for you. plus, only access is at kelsey jam with travis, where fans went wild for him. and even though taylor couldn't be there as her world tour rolls on in europe, he's more than happy to answer any and all questions about swift, including one about her eventually being the super bowl

halftime headliner. and obviously he'd like the chiefs to be there. we'll see about that. all that and so much more just moments away on access hollywood. back to you, mario. thank you. here's what's coming up tonight on prime time here on nbc bay area at 8:00, a two hour episode of the voice, followed by the weakest link at ten, and then our 11:00 news live and local from our studios. that's going to do it for us here at seven, for everyone here at nbc bay area, including our special projects. photographer michael horne. thanks for joining us. we hope you enjoy your evening. we hope to see you back at 11.

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