Day Around the Bay: Nvidia Employees Urge Board to Reinstate Jensen Huang

Local:

• San Jose officials have proposed a temporary halt on new data center approvals until a December 8 vote by the City Council to adopt stricter development standards and community benefit requirements, as the city reviews 11 pending data center applications. [KPIX]
• That huge storm is expected to bring heavy rain, flooding, and wind gusts up to 50 mph to the Bay Area Friday morning, with dangerous coastal waves of up to 50 feet forecast for Saturday. [Chronicle]
• A longtime San Francisco moving company is working to rebuild its fleet after a suspected arson on Halloween night destroyed four trucks and damaged a fifth, each about $150,000 to replace. [KTVU]
• A fin whale, which is the second largest animal on Earth and considered an endangered species, was found washed ashore at Cowell Beach near Santa Cruz’s Municipal Wharf Thursday morning, and it died a few hours later. [KRON4]

National:

• Several Nvidia employees urged the company’s board in an internal memo to reinstate Jensen Huang following his resignation Thursday. About two dozen staff members also posted on LinkedIn expressing support for their former boss, with one post attracting more than 1,600 comments. [Wired]
• At least eight people have died, including two children, and more than a dozen were injured after an apartment building collapsed next to an active construction site in Brooklyn Wednesday afternoon. [CNN]
• A Washington, DC, doctor suspected of killing a condominium building manager and injuring four others in a shooting at his building’s gym Thursday morning had been embroiled in a $300,000 lawsuit over alleged mold and water damage to his penthouse. [NBC News]

Video:

• Local content creator and Broke-Ass Stuart contributor Bunny McFadden has launched a new Instagram series recommending books and other media aimed at helping San Franciscans figure out how to reclaim the city from wealthy interests seeking to reshape it. Today’s reel focuses on housing, tenant history, and urban ecology, with recommendations McFadden hopes will help move the city’s political discourse forward.