Investigative Unit

Authorities are investigating the death of a 35-year-old man who twice told police and fire crews he couldn’t breathe as he was being held, face-down, after being handcuffed for several minutes, NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit has learned.

Recent monitoring data shows the already sinking and tilting Millennium Tower recently settled another tenth of an inch during one week of the excavation needed for the final phase of the planned retrofit of the troubled high-rise.

Records reviewed by NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit show that thousands of dollars raised by the San Francisco Parks Alliance scholarship fund, ended up paying for the city’s Recreation and Parks staff retreats instead.

The engineer responsible for the troubled fix of the Millennium Tower acknowledged Thursday that the building is continuing to tilt about 3 inches a year since work began.

A new push in U.S. Senate for legislation to stop deportation of immigrant veterans for minor crimes.

California school districts may have to return as much as $160 million in federal COVID-19 stimulus funds due to the slow rate of spending, a state audit found. The report released Tuesday morning, confirms an NBC Bay Area investigation earlier this month that found the majority of school COVID-19 money is still unspent.

The designer of the troubled fix for the sinking and tilting Millennium Tower recently briefed city officials about an especially unpleasant potential byproduct of the building’s settlement – sewer backups, NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit has learned.

A PG&E arborist has acknowledged the tree that fell onto a powerline and is suspected of starting the Dixie Fire, showed signs of rot – a finding that came as no surprise to one expert tracking the worsening epidemic of fungal disease in the densely-forested, drought-ravaged Sierra.

Federal regulators from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have issued a notice of “Immediate Jeopardy” to San Jose’s Good Samaritan Hospital, NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit has confirmed.

Since the start of the pandemic, many architects have received a steady stream of requests from clients wanting to rebuild or renovate their current office spaces in order to safely lure back weary employees and customers.

A woman entangled in a messy homeowner-renter dispute with a San Mateo family agrees to an interview with The Investigative Unit after being accused of taking advantage of the pandemic and the legal system to live rent-free.

The Investigative Unit examines how a local pandemic shut-down order forced a San Mateo family out of their own home, they say.

The Investigative Unit looks into poor ventilation in California classrooms and how the lack of outdoor airflow could impact COVID-19 risks for teachers and students.

NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit spoke to more than 15 people who were locked up or working at San Quentin during one of the state’s worse coronavirus outbreaks.

State regulators say they’ve received a flood of safety complaints from workers claiming their employers are not doing enough to protect against COVID-19.

Since March, in four separate pieces of congressionally approved legislation including the CARES Act, the federal government has spent more than $810 billion backing small business loans, yet several local business owners tell the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit that those federal dollars have yet to find their way to those who need it the most. Stephen Stock reports.

The pangolin – an unusual bug-hunting endangered mammal with a long tongue and scales all over its body – has now entered the COVID-19 scientific journals because it carries a coronavirus that looks strikingly similar to the virus that has swept the world.

A state lawmaker is urging both Cal Fire and state regulators to take another look at their findings in the massive Tubbs fire based on new video evidence uncovered by NBC Bay Area’s investigative unit.

Two of San Francisco International Airport’s four runways were closed for multiple hours Thursday after crews found a pothole in one of them, airport officials said.

For the second time in six months, the FBI is accusing a Chinese national working for Apple of attempting to steal trade secrets related to the company’s secret autonomous vehicle program, NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit learned Tuesday.