right now at 5:00, back in the headlines. scott peterson appearing virtually in a san mateo courtroom, and the evidence his

new attorneys say could prove he did not kill his wife laci and their unborn child. ahead we hear from his former defense attorney on how likely this could be. and today the city of berkeley takes a very big step toward honoring our indigenous native people in a very material way. plus, facing major funding hurdles. the highly anticipated bullet train aiming to connect the bay area to l.a. is now falling short on cash. a live report on the billions more state lawmakers now say is needed to complete the project. this is "today in the bay." and this is also wednesday morning. 5:00 right now. thanks for starting your day with us. i'm laura garcia. >> i'm marcus washington. we'll get a look at the commute in a bit. first, let's talk about that forecast. forecaster cinthia pimentel is in for kari. what do we have today? >> good news, the rain is out of the way, but we have another

phenomenon we have to deal with. we're clear, no fog in the way of your morning commute. temperatures, 46 in concord, 43 in napa, we'll do 47 in palo alto. we're drying out and getting warmer today, but the other headline we're going to start talking about is the wind picking up tonight, and definitely into thursday. the gusts almost 60 miles an hour on the ridgetops. i'll guide you through the forecast and what's going on with our weekend, it's looking lovely, sun and 70s. we'll talk about that in just a second. mike has a look at the nimitz. >> we're looking to oakland, 880 itself moves smoothly through oakland, now, under the nimitz we had overnight road work at the webster tube and it has cleared just before the scheduled reopening. that's great news. but tonight, remember, the posey tube will have maintenance from alameda into oakland. we have bridges to the south. no major issues throughout the east bay. we are looking at slowing that's just popped up in richmond.

i will check west 80 and see if there's a reason for that slowing, or it may be a slower vehicle. the south bay moves smoothly and we still have traffic control one way for niles canyon. back to you. >> thank you very much. new this morning, a monumentous case for the city of berkeley as they prepare to give back ancestral land. >> kris sanchez joins us from the newsroom with what the plan is going forward. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. this is a 2.2 acre site which was ancestral land, but is now a parking lot in west berkeley. in this film by sacred land film project, you can see the area in question, what it once looked like in the renderings, and why it would be important for the tribe to get it back. here is a description from the member of the con fed rated villages. >> this is where people lived and died, laughed and cried, and buried our ancestors in the

mounds. the people are still here and we have a vision for the sacred site, not for the commercial development being proposed, but a green space with flowing water, a memorial park where we can re-bury our ancestors who were taken away to museums. >> reporter: the city of berkeley brokered a deal with the land owner to convey the land to the city for the amount of $27 million. the city contributed just $1.5 million toward that purchase. the rest of the money was contributed by a land trust led by indigenous women. now, the berkeley city council will take up this matter to make it official later today. >> thank you very much, kris. 5:03 right now. new overnight, russian president vladimir putin says the country is ready for nuclear war if it came to it. his comments made on russian state tv are being seen as a warning to western countries, and it comes days ahead of the country's presidential election. putin is expected to win another

six-year term in office. russia's president went on to say that he does not mean the world is heading for nuclear war, suggesting president joe biden's experience ensures the potential dangers of such escalation. putin has repeatedly talked about his readiness to use nuclear weapons since the country's invasion of ukraine in 2022. to continuing coverage of the scott peterson murder case, new dna evidence may be the key to prove his innocence. back in 2004, peterson was convicted of murdering his wife laci and their unborn son. he appeared virtually in a san mateo courtroom yesterday morning. his attorneys with the l.a. innocence project say that there is evidence that did not make it into the courtroom 20 years ago. they point to a van with a stained mattress found in modesto the morning after laci disappeared. they want the mattress tested for dna. peterson's former attorney says it could be a game-changer. >> if the van is, in fact -- if

the dna is still preserved, if the dna has not degraded, if the dna is still available to be tested, that, to me, is not only game changing, but game over. >> prosecutors argued against the motions made by peterson's attorneys saying that these are not new issues. the judge set the next two hearings for april 16th and may 29th. new developments, california's mega high-speed rail project between san francisco to los angeles is facing some major funding hurdles. >> ginger conejero saab is live for us in san francisco this morning. ginger, looking back at the original plan, at this point we should have been celebrating the completion of the project. >> reporter: or taking a trip down south, down to los angeles. marcus and laura, more money is still needed to continue to make progress. in fact, $100 billion and that's not all.

the project ceo brian kelly testified at the state senate transportation committee this week about the authority's updated draft business plan. kelly told lawmakers he had $28 billion on hand, but that is still several billion short to make progress on the central valley segment. he said he's hoping to fill that gap with federal funds to get it to the projected $32 to $35 billion cost. that part of the project is now expected to be fully operational at the earliest by 2030. now, aside from the money to fill the gap in the central valley, project leaders still need an additional $100 billion to complete the bullet train from san francisco to los angeles. you're seeing a map of the phases of this project, phase one will connect san francisco, merced to los angeles and anaheim. phase two will add sacramento to merced and san diego to los angeles. you'll remember voters were originally pitched this idea in 2008. the expectation then was that it would be complete by now.

but almost 16 years later, there's no definitive end in sight. >> right now the air is being sucked out of the room funding-wise by this one project. how do we get the public on board with something that has this much of a downside to it funding-wise? >> i think the only way you get the public is by performing better and i think the authority is performing better than it was, and i think it will going forward. >> reporter: now, the project's ceo is also hoping that there are funding opportunities from the private sector. guys, this is something that california may be looking closely at come the november election. it would be something that is defined progress-wise depending on who is in office. president joe biden has given his support to this in the past. >> very much so. it's interesting to see the segments of it that they've kind of built out there in the central valley. thank you. 5:08 this morning. let's take a live look outside. san jose, good morning.

>> hello. good morning to you. >> let's get a look at what's going on weather-wise. cinthia has been following everything. what do you got for us? >> i don't know about you guys, but i'm still struggling to deal with the time change a little bit. we'll get there as the week goes on. outside right now, san jose 48 degrees to start our morning, and it's mostly clear around the bay area. we'll do slightly cooler in dublin at 44 degrees. we are drying out and warming up wednesday, but another headline i want to tell you about, it's going to be a windy wednesday afternoon. look at those wind gusts. you'll definitely feel a little freeze as you go into lunchtime, but by this afternoon, definitely into tonight, the midnight hours, the contours start to turn into the dark red and purple color. we're going to be under a wind advisory for the majority of thursday and half of the day on friday as we see gusts anywhere from about 25 to 35 locally, but definitely higher on the mountain passes. i'll guide you through that in a little bit. mike has a check on cheaper gas prices. >> behind me is today's list for the best prices, cities around

the bay. interesting today how gas buddy reports oakland as the high on today's board and it beats out san francisco by a penny. i don't know if you want to win the numbers game. because we track the best gas prices every day here at "today in the bay," we've all seen the prices jump up quite a bit over the past couple of weeks. i got a chance yesterday to ask gas buddy's head of petroleum analysis why the prices are so dynamic right now. >> a lot of what we've seen over the last couple of weeks has really been related to the seasonality. california, northern california especially, switches to summer gasoline ahead of the rest of the nation. the increase should start tapering off and essentially all of what we've been seeing is due to seasonality, not necessarily fluctuations in oil prices, but rising gasoline demand t switch over to the blends of fuel. >> it's not due to any sort of oil shortage or anything.

patrick explains the mandated blends are cleaner burning. during warmer weather, that is importantly for the environment. next hour we'll explain what carb is and how it pushes california toward the top of the gas price charts. i'll give you a couple of reasons why we are at the top of the list where we don't necessarily want to be. >> avoiding more carbs. it's a trend these days. thank you. it's not just gas prices going up. our food prices are going up as well. coming up next on "today in the bay," this san francisco restaurant causing quite a stir for raising prices on one of its most popular items. we hear from the owner to get a better understanding of what's behind the price hike. record stock market, record in bitcoin, and a record in oil, i think mike and the rest

good wednesday morning. the time is 5:13. we're checking in on our day planner in castro valley. grab a light jacket, temperatures are in the 40s. we're going to keep a little cloud cover until the early afternoon and then see more sunshine and also some very strong winds ahead. i'll talk about that in the full microclimate forecast. i was just looking at the volume of traffic across 92. the san mateo bridge sees a good volume of traffic, maybe more cars than we typically see. i'm noticing one set of lights that looks like it's off the

right shoulder. no problems reported. i'll keep my eye on that and let you know what we find, as well as the slowing we saw in richmond. good morning. very happy wednesday to you. three figures i want you to look at on the board. s&p 500 hit yet another record, even with the hotter than expected inflation data. bitcoin remains near a record high. our computer has the wrong number for west texas intermediate. that's oil prices. don't we wish? we know oil is getting more expensive. we see it in mike's gas prices. i thought this was interesting, america is now the top producer of oil in the world. in fact, according to the latest figures from the u.s. energy department, the u.s. produced more oil each year in the last six years than any country ever, and, yes, that includes the middle east. america produced an average of 12.9 million barrels a day in 2023.

russia, a little more than 10 million, saudi arabia, a little less than 10 million. canada and iraq come in fourth and fifth. roku warning users it's been hacked and the bad guys got ahold of customer data, including credit cards, about 15,000 affected, according to the south bay company. best way to tell if you're one of them is try to log into your roku account. the company says the bad guys changed passwords. apple says it will allow users in europe to download apps to their phone outside of the app store, so, for instance, you would be able to download the netflix app from netflix directly. it's part of a legal settlement for apple in europe. for years apple has said restricting apps to the app store kept the bad actors out. you don't get viruses on your iphone. a vote in the u.s. house of representatives to demand tiktok make huge changes or face a ban

is expected to move forward today. it has support from both democrats and republicans. tiktok parent bytedance has close association with the chinese government. american politicians worry bytedance could either spy on american users or feed them videos to influence voters. lawmakers demanding bytedance sell tiktok or make structural changes to separate out the app from the company's influence. something tiktok has been working on already. one media analyst points out while facebook and twitter and reddit aren't chinese, they do have to deal with china as well. >> a lot of the critiques that lawmakers have against tiktok could be extrapolated to all platforms, data collection, surveillance, the way information is and isn't moderated. so i think by choosing tiktok, if tiktok is indeed banned, it's going to help a lot of american tech companies, but it's not going to solve a lot of the concerns that people have big tech, and i think that's a

critical part of the story that's missing in our conversations about tiktok. >> that has been important. if facebook wants to do business in china, they have to follow chinese rules, which may mean turn over our user data and we can look at their email. google dealt with this many years ago and said, largely, we're out of china. >> interesting. >> thanks, scott. 6:17 this morning. fast food may get even faster for you. one new york city chick-fil-a will be trying a new way for you to get your nuggets and your sandwich even quicker. >> what about that sauce? >> we've got that, too. at least i think so. the location will be the first grab-and-go location for the chain. picture this, no menu boards, no chairs, and no one taking your order. >> how important is it to keep up with customers' interests and trends? >> care can look different across the board, and chick-fil-a wants to focus on

serving the customer in the way that they want to be served. so this mobile pickup experience will create a very tailored solution to provide speed and ease for the customer. >> as long as the food is hot, i'm in. you can watch that entire story ahead this morning on the "today" show coming up at 7:00 right after us here on "today in the bay." >> keep it hot, keep them happy. >> there you go. speaking of food, a $22 burrito in san francisco is trending this morning. >> we might have to split that. it sounds expensive, but the restaurant says is price is just to break even from inflation. la vaca birria is located in the mission district. when it opens two years ago the price of its signature burrito was $11. now the price doubled at $22. the owner says the move is to keep up with the rising prices of ingredients. he's explaining to customers if he didn't increase the prices, he would be out of business. >> just everything keeps raising

in pricing, one big thing for us is our beef. we use choice beef that was $2.50 cheaper two years ago. there's just no other way around it. we want to serve the quality we serve, we have to charge for it as well. otherwise we're going to close the doors. >> that's ricardo lopez. he says he wants to thank customers for sticking with him, but it's just a reflection of the times we live in. the thing is, it looks like he has not cut down on quantity. that's a pretty big burrito. >> you could split that. >> they used the entire cow. >> that's what i was thinking. >> take the lunch outside. eat your burrito outside. >> and then maybe stay outside for a little bit. take a walk. >> let's take a walk to the weather center and see what's going on outside for your burrito eating wednesday. i want to show you something that's going on on satellite and radar. over to the desert southwest, we're starting to build low pressure, but into the pacific,

notice we're starting to ridge up a little bit. that's high pressure, which is going to give us dry and warmer days ahead. when they're super close together like this, it actually causes some issues, especially when it comes to the wind. we'll get to that in a second. lts talk about these nice temperatures for your lunchtime plans. 66 in novato, 64 in dublin. the majority of the bay area in the mid to upper 60s. as we talk about the winds, we do have this wind advisory that starts later on this afternoon and continues until friday. the system i just explained to you is a little more stubborn to break apart. the coast and hills could be gusting anywhere from 50 to 60 miles an hour, so let's talk about how we're going to go through this hour-by-hour. this afternoon you'll feel the breeze picking up. into the midnight hours, you'll hear the wind howling. you definitely want to take this afternoon to prepare, secure any loose items. as far as health, you might notice that the allergies start to pick up. as we go into the second half of the day on thursday, gusty winds

are still with us. i don't see this calming down until the wind advisory expires on friday, but it could get extended as we see gusty winds for the north bay friday afternoon. as we go ahead and talk about what's going on long-range, we are drying out and clearing out for the second half of the weekend. it's going to be warm and nice. it won't be the bay area weekends we've been dealing with lately with the rain and one day is sunny, one is rain. we're going to stay nice and clear for the next couple of days. so overall san francisco will stay windy, but dry, for the next couple of days. notice on friday, that looks like our best day to get out in the sunshine, 70s. more 70s for our inland valleys. we could be in the mid to upper 70s as we go into friday and saturday and continue the drying trend ahead. mike, you have a nice, clear view of the bay bridge. >> we do. much better than yesterday where we had a drizzle and mist. clear view of the city and a clear drive across the span, both directions for i-80. around the bay, we're showing a

smooth flow of traffic. we have traffic control, one-way traffic control for niles canyon and highway 9 at the bottom near sanborn, they still have the washout they're contending with. there's a crash out of the altamont pass, westbound 580, right near grant line road. no major issues as far as the impact on the drive. highway 4 still hasn't shown the build yet. we are looking at the north bay, one crash from the cordelia split. >> thanks, mike. 5:22. coming up next, nbc bay area responds. >> uncle sam is collectively saving families hundreds of millions of dollars on tax prep fees. i'm consumer investigator chris chmura. chmura. i'll show you how to find out ( ♪♪ )

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organized retail theft. an inside look at how the chp is cracking down.

right now at 5:30, the house ready to vote on a ban on tiktok. we'll tell you everything you need to know. and fighting retail theft. an exclusive look at the way california highway patrol is looking to target organized crime and prevent stolen items from popping up online for sale.

plus, relaxing the state's water conservation efforts. the new rules announced and the impact it will have on your water usage. this is "today in the bay." good morning. i'm marcus washington. >> and i'm laura garcia. thanks for joining us. let's start with a look at the forecast. good things in the works. forecaster cinthia pimentel is in for kari this morning tracking what we can expect. >> we can put the umbrellas away and bust out the sunglasses. we are going to gradually warm up. this morning it's chilly, so i don't blame you if you want to crank up the heater in the car. temperatures 45 in santa rosa, 44 in martinez. as we go into the tri-valley, 43 in dublin, 48 in san jose. the showers are clearing out and so is that cloud cover. we're going to see a nice day ahead, mostly sunny skies, in the 60s. the wind is also going to pick up. tonight through friday morning, it's a long stretch that we have to deal with. then the weekend rolls around

and less wind, more sunshine, low to mid-70s in the extended forecast. if you're planning on going up to the sierra, they also have to deal with the high wind warning, which is a little more severe. and that also starts later on tonight. we're seeing more traffic through the toll plaza. >> yeah, we expect this pattern to happen. we don't have the metering lights just yet. we'll get a closer look at the dry roadways. thanks for that report. it looks like a great week ahead and a great toll plaza tri-valley ahead. we do see slowing on the incline, same on highway 37 and 4, typical pattern through contra costa county, and also out of vallejo heading toward novato on highway 37 without incidents. we have a minor crash on the shoulder, i believe, out of the altamont pass at grant line road. we don't see additional slowing there. so the pattern is looking pretty standard for drive times. and vasco road just starting to pick up the volume a tad out of contra costa county. back to you. >> thanks for watching that. happening today, the u.s. house is set to vote on banning

tiktok. >> scott mcgrew has been closely watching this. the vote is expected to pass easily despite needing a two-third vote. >> that's right, it's one of the few things that politicians in the house can agree on. remember, they had trouble agreeing to keep the government open. two-thirds, they've set up the vote to speed it through. the u.s. government has been concerned for years that tiktok's parent company bytedance is too closely associated with the chinese government, and that tiktok could be used to spy on americans or influence them. now, there's absolutely no evidence that has ever happened, that's important to point out. the proposed law would require bytedance to sell tiktok or make sufficient structural changes to allay suspicions about the company or face the ban. it has to pass the house and senate and the senate hasn't scheduled a vote. it's not clear it would come up for a vote. tiktok pushed its users to contact lawmakers and ask them to vote no.

>> what do you make of the pushback from young people who are prompted on this app to call their members of congress and push against this ban? >> they love tiktok, i know that from my own grandkids. and it's part of their lifestyle and they don't want to lose it. we've got to look at the bigger picture and that is how does this fit in in items of our constitution and national security. tiktok has been working on allaying politicians' fierce, this is the ceo of tiktok testifying to congress last year. he is back in washington this morning to meet with lawmakers. >> i remember that hearing. some senators were very confrontational. >> particularly josh hawley, who kept asking the ceo what his connection was to the chinese government, was he an official or part of the chinese party. the ceo was bewildered. he kept saying i'm from singapore, i served in the singaporean army, he went to harvard. i have nothing to do with the

chinese government. >> senator durban we just saw, also questioning some constitutional things. >> that's a big question because montana tried to ban tiktok. there's a huge constitutional question. there's a lot of ifs. it will pass the house. if it gets through the senate, biden says he'll sign it. almost immediately it will go to the courts. tiktok has said that's what they'll do. >> a lot of folks make money with it. >> yes, they do. >> thank you, scott. there's a troubling confrontation in marin county amid the muslim holy month, ramadan. novato police are saying it was not a hate crime. what happened, a man was assaulted at the islamic center of north marin on monday night, one of those members say they saw a visitor carrying a gun in that member tried to grab the bag, that visitor punched him, pepper sprayed him and ran away. the san rafael police say david

margolish confessed to the crime, calling it a misunderstanding. >> he didn't brandish the firearm. there was no evidence that it was premeditated or target. >> for us, we have that tension in our community already. when that incident occurred, we were very scared. fortunately, nothing -- no one was really seriously harmed. >> that's the good thing, no one was seriously harmed here. so this is what police are saying. they are saying that that suspect, he did have a prior felony conviction. we do know that he has booked into the marin county jail on a quarter million dollar bond, and of course we will continue to follow the story. we know retail theft is a major problem throughout the bay area. now the state is trying to really tackle the issue. "today in the bay"'s bob redell joins us live this morning where we're getting an inside look at how the chp is going after people that have been perpetrating these crimes. we've had some success in

numbers already. >> reporter: correct. good morning to you. our sister station cnbc had exclusive access to the highway patrol to show how the law enforcement agency is targeting and cracking down on these organized retail theft crime rings that steal merchandise and then sell it online. recently the chp busted a lucrative theft ring that chp says was based out of this mansion in san diego county. the ringleader, a woman, is accused of giving a group of a dozen other women across the country a list of stores and merchandise to target, including ulta beauty, whose products the thieves sell at deep discounts on an amazon digital storefront called the online makeup store. at this mansion, a team from ulta and chp recovered $387,000 in stolen items. ulta beauty's ceo says they are

absolutely fed up. >> what do you think in this case, as we're speaking of in california, that amazon could have done to know that these were stolen goods? >> what i would say more broadly is there is technology available, there's use of advanced analytics and data capabilities to try to understand behaviors that are indicative of reselling stolen goods. >> reporter: amazon declined an on-camera interview with cnbc, but a spokesperson said they invest more than $1 billion annually and employ thousands of people to, quote, fight fraud, adding it uses sophisticated detection and prevention solutions. the ringleader of this alleged operation in san diego did plead not guilty to charges of conspiracy, grand theft and receipt of stolen property. her husband and seven others connected to the ring were also charged and pled not guilty. now, the chp's organized retail crime task force has been active

here in the bay area as well earlier this month. they along with the alameda police department recovered $75,000 worth of stolen merchandise on an operation that stemmed from a grand theft at an old navy store in alameda. reporting live, bob redell, "today in the bay." >> all right, thanks for the latest there, bob. 5:38 right now. happening today, an east bay pastor accused of sexually assaulting young members of his congregation is scheduled to appear in court for a hearing. this concerns victor hernandez' time as a pastor at a spanish language christian church in richmond. he is facing 16 charges, varying from rape of a child over 14 years old to kidnapping and molestation. the d.a.'s office says four victims have come forward and there may be more. he has been held on $10 million bond and has pleaded not guilty. now to a follow-up out of the north bay, sonoma county supervisors have unanimously approved a resolution declaring

racism a public health crisis. the count health department resolution suggests black people's lives are ten years shorter on average than other racial and ethnic groups countywide and also says that black and latino children are more than twice as likely to live in poverty. the resolution doesn't ask for money or redirect existing funds. turning to our climate in crisis, california is relaxing its new water conservation rules. the state is trying to cut urban water use, even though california is not in a drought. the old rules say over 160 agencies would have had to cut water use by 20% or more by 2035. now, just 46 agencies will have to cut water use by that much. many bay area water agencies will not be required to make further cuts through 2035, and will face cuts of less than 5% by 2040. the state water resource control board will finalize those rules in july. a live look this morning in

san francisco. take a look at the bay bridge there. beautiful start to the morning. let's get a look at that forecast for us today. do we need to bundle up, do we need an umbrella? i don't know. let's ask cinthia. >> yes, you do need to bundle up for the first half of the day. we're checking on our day planner, temperatures in the low 40s in san ramon and then we'll see more sunshine as you plan your lunchtime hour. this afternoon, more daylight hours and warmer temperatures compared to the weekend we had. i also want to talk about what's going on later tonight. we do have a wind advisory for the majority of the north bay, the east bay hills, and along the peninsula. those wind gusts are going to be anywhere from about 35, 50, 60 mile an hour gusts as we go into friday. so it's a long stretch of time. but all of this rain we've had recently kind of puts my worries at ease a little when it comes to fire concern. but i still want you to be weather aware. mike, what are you waiting on? >> we were looking for tree

impacts as well. this is what i was waiting for, the bay bridge backup. we predicted this would happen about this time, the backup forming at the toll plaza. that's really the only big change. we have more traffic and more slowing on highway 4 and 37, pretty predictable again there. now, tonight, like last night, we have maintenance going on -- first of all, let's talk about the city. chase center there's not a warriors game. that's the wrong icon. there's not a warriors game. there's a concert, ye and they have the vultures listening experience at chase center. so follow your ears. over here, we have scheduled maintenance for the posy tube from alameda into oakland. options to the tubes, we have bridges just to the south that go across to 880, which is moving smoothly right now. a light flow of traffic through oakland and a smooth drive for most of the east bay and the eastshore freeway is just 16 minutes from highway 4 to the backup at the bay bridge. >> thanks, mike.

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good wednesday morning. the time is 5:45. as you step out the door in mountain view, grab a light jacket but put the umbrella away. we're going to see more clearing as we go into this afternoon with more sunshine and temperatures topping out at 63 degrees. you will also feel the wind as we go into tonight, and we'll talk about those wind speeds coming up. we're talking about the san mateo bridge westbound. so we have an earlier issue, someone stopped on the shoulder, and that has cleared. but as that clears, we now see this, some flashing lights over on the right service area. that's still westbound across the san mateo bridge. we'll track it as a crew arrives to hopefully lend a hand. there may be slowing in the slow lane. new this morning, the white house is making a new push to try to save lives. we want to give you a live look

this morning in d.c. the biden/harris administration announced that the white house challenge to save lives from overdoses, so it is the call to action for leaders from across the nation to train their employees on what to do if they encounter an overdose and encourages everyone to keep opioid reversing medications on hand. the administration says than overdose can happen anywhere to anyone. in san francisco, the primary number of accidental overdose deaths in 2023 is 806 people, several airlines, entertainment businesses, schools and transit systems all have implemented access to reversal drugs like narcan. it's almost official, the presidential race will be between joe biden and donald trump. >> and scott mcgrew, a race many americans say they don't want. here we go again. >> here we go again. polls show a majority of

americans, neither is their first choice. voters did not want a rerun of the 2020 elections with two men four years older than they were there. but with yesterday's state primary votes, biden and trump have won the number of delegates they need to win their party's nomination. we cannot say they're the nominees yet because that's done at the party conventions later this year. but to laura's point, yes, it is now semiofficial. former special counsel robert hur testified before congress tuesday about his controversial decision not to prosecute joe biden for holding on to classified documents, after his vice presidency, and his controversial language in the report calling biden a forgetful old man. here is the white house response to the day's testimony. >> i think the main thing to take away from today is two words for the american people, case closed. we sat for three hours and watched on live television on many networks hours of

explanation of why a trump-appointed prosecutor, who spent 15 months investigating the president, came to the obvious conclusion that there is no case here. after all of this time, millions of pages of records that have been reviewed, 150 witnesses have been interviewed. the conclusion was simple, that there is no case here. the case is closed. it's time to move on. the next order of business for the house is banning tiktok. the house will vote today on a bill that would require china's bytedance to sell tiktok. not clear that's constitutional. montana tried to ban tiktok and the law was suspended by the courts. this is just the house voting, not the senate. not only is the senate not scheduled to vote, it's not clear it will ever be brought up for a vote. senators looking at the house, busy with tiktok, and asking, can you work on more important things like saving ukraine with a bill called the supplemental that we passed a long time ago.

>> i want to encourage the speaker again to allow a vote, let the house speak on the supplemental that we sent over to them several weeks ago. >> jake sullivan, the national security adviser, said yesterday the u.s. was sending $300 million worth of weapons and help, money found when the pentagon got a better deal than it was expecting on replacements for weapons it already sent. the other big challenge for republicans in the house, a majority just got that much more thin, as colorado republican ken buck announced he was leaving congress next week. he already made the decision not to run for another term. there will be a special election in colorado to replace him, but that's going to take time. in the meantime, republicans will outnumber democrats in the house just 218 to 213. many conservative republicans don't vote with their party, meaning speaker johnson is going to need democrats to get much of

his agenda passed. >> we'll see what happens. thank you, scott. ready for this? march madness starts in about two weeks but the party is already started. st. mary's basketball team did something historic. the championship game of the wcc tournament was in las vegas last night. it was 21st ranked st. mary's against gonzaga. it was a close game, but the gales took charge, winning 69-60. it's the first time since 2012 they won the regular season title and the conference title. next up, selection sunday, which is this weekend. i'm a gale. our star-studded trio will be hosting the olympics opening ceremony in paris. >> it's an honor to be able to announce that this year at the summer olympics in paris, the opening ceremony will be hosted by yours truly, peyton manning and kelly clarkson. [ cheers and applause ]

>> it's a gold medal trio. the announcement made last night on "the tonight show" with jimmy fallon. the host asked all three if they could win a gold medal in anything besides what they do for a living, what would it be? here is what they had to say. >> event planning. [ laughter ] >> what? event planning? >> yeah. it's kind of my true calling. i'm planning a birthday in december. i've already told all my friends what to wear. >> if you want to travel and get to an airport, that's what i do half the year. i'm the guy that's packed the night before, the bag is ready to go. if you run late, i might tell you that the flight is 15 minutes earlier than it really is. i'm that guy. >> you've traveled with me already. >> pretty much. >> i am not like that at all. i hate planning vacations. i just want to say where we're going and then we'll just end up

where we went up. >> what would you win a gold medal in? >> i am the simone biles of legos. i am incredible at legos. >> i'm thinking of eggos. food is on my mind. the paris games will be right here on nbc bay area. the paris games will have mike tirico, this will be his fourth straight opening ceremony there. manning and clarkson, who hosts the "kelly clarkson show" on nbc, will make their olympic broadcast debuts. don't forget, nbc bay area is your home for the olympics, for the 2024 paris olympics. and it starts july 26th. >> so french. >> it will be here before you know it. and so will spring be here before we know it. next week. i think so, yes, on tuesday. i'm also thinking about food.

but let's go outside and get your forecast for you this wednesday morning. golden gate bridge, nice and clear. just a little bit of a breeze. into walnut creek, i see a few clouds lingering around, but nothing too bad. our temperatures today, as we prepare for spring, are actually going to start to feel a little more spring-like in the coming days. 68 in santa rosa, martinez, concord, upper 60s from mountain view to san jose. as we go into tomorrow, you'll definitely start to feel the warm-up, especially on friday we start to get into more numbers in the 70s here. and also something that's coming ahead is some really gusty winds. it's going to pick up tonight. aside from all of that sunshine, i want you to prepare for the strongest winds, especially over our mountain passes, possibly some downed trees as we have some saturated soil and some possible power outages. make sure all of your devices are charged up and ready to go. our hour-by-hour wind gusts, i'm timing this out to this afternoon. you're going to feel the breeze in the north bay. but watch as the colors turn to

dark purple, especially in the overnight hours. it might be hard to sleep as we see wind gusts in the napa mountains around 40, 45 miles an hour. and this will someone as we go into the second half of thursday. this is extended all the way into friday. so we have a couple of days to go with the very gusty winds. i don't see it calming down until we go into the second half of friday. after that, it is smooth sailing into the weekend. another place that's going to have a high wind warning is tonight in the sierra. our wind gusts are going to be upwards of 40 to maybe 50 miles an hour, especially in the high ridges. so it's possible there could be travel delays, downed trees. into the bay area, look at palo alto over the next couple of days. we are climbing into those temperatures, it's going to be a beautiful weekend in the 70s. san francisco won't be left behind. after we get done with the wind, we should see friday nice and comfortable and a anything weekend ahead, especially for our inland valleys, getting those weekend plans together. mike, traffic. >> yes, traffic. after all of that beautiful look

ahead, we have a look at now. the toll plaza, all lanes filled in. no big surprises. highway 4 and 37 showing your typical builds in concord and out of vallejo respectively. there is a crash reported right here on 580 just after the split or just before the split. i'm waiting for information on which direction on 580 it is. the span across the bridge, richmond into san rafael is moving smoothly wright now. the south bay, we're right on schedule. we have a build north 101 from 680, 280 to oakland road. no surprises out of the south county. a smooth flow across the san mateo bridge, but we still have that disabled vehicle. >> thank you so much, mike. happening now, four years after the pandemic, a new finding indicates that ripple effects are still present. the research shows the average distance between workers' homes and their job sites has tripled over the past four years. the research was led by stanford and the mexico economist institute of technology. so back in 2019 the average

distance between the two was about 10 miles, but as of last year, it's about 27. searchers say that that increase is in part due to the shift allowing employees to work from home. this sunday marks four years since the bay area began shutdown due to covid-19. it is certainly a busy morning here on "today in the bay." ahead at 6:00, could scott peterson get a new trial? his former defense attorney thinks it's possible. the new evidence peterson's lawyers are looking for. but first, a reminder, nbc bay area is streaming 24/7. you can watch us whenever you would like on roku or other streaming platforms. a lot more news ahead this wednesday morning.

right now at 6:00, berkeley giving back land to a native american tribe. the reason the city says it is long overdue. the highly anticipated high-speed rail aiming to connect the bay area to l.a. now falling short on cash. the billions more state lawmakers now say is needed to