rockefeller tree lighting. janel has got the legs for it, so watch out. >> i cannot kick that hi, not anymore. >> you can watch our newscast 24/7 on other streaming platforms. >> what were you just say on the commercial break, some sort of kicks? here is what is happening on this busy wednesday. an upscale bay area town submits a housing plan to the state only to have it set back. what that town is now doing and what could happen if it doesn't game the state approval. we continue our series race in america. tonight, a man in silicon valley who has a unique way of engaging the community. april is earth month, how san francisco my the mayor kicked it off by recognizing people who helped our climate in crises. welcome to the news at 5:30, thanks for joining us.

>> we begin with an unprecedented move on the peninsula. california has revoked portola valley's a portable housing certification. >> this means the san mateo county town is no longer in compliance with the statement giftable housing regulations. emma goss explains what comes next. >> reporter: portola valley's planning commission meets tonight to continuing developing its zoning plan, a key step toward getting its housing element back. in the recent past, housing advocates applauded portola valley for a plan to build 152 affordable housing units. it was a town's respondents with state law requiring proof of plans to build a certain amount of affordable housing. and, it is a plan the state approved back in january. then, the complicated zoning process began. >> portola valley got decertified for one of the most clear-cut, unambiguous areas of state law, the rezoning deadline. >> reporter: the state's decision to decertify the plan this week means portola is no

longer in compliance with state law. the town's mayor insists there is no stall and delay tactic. in a statement, she said 21 currently does not have these zoning district, so developing them in a town of our size and resources takes time. she added that the statements the one-size-fits-all approach interwoven with rapidly changing housing laws has overwhelmed our small town and made compliance a herculean task. i look forward to recertification in may so we can finally move on to the work of the intent of the regulations. actually getting housing built. >> they need to, certain state money if they aren't in compliance with their housing element. for a small town like portola valley, with 4400 residents, losing a revenue source is tough. >> reporter: kim clerk at the task at his church which sits next to land where affordable

housing may be built. the housing topic hester debate across the community. >> there are people who do not want the community to change and they are willing to throw up a series of ejections to it. >> the council needs to not listen to that segment of the community. >> reporter: the count town council has a timeline to get the plan adopted by next month. emma goss, nbc bay area news. b.a.r.t. service hit a snag in contra costa county. it started around 4:30 this morning. b.a.r.t. said an out of service train derailed slightly. trains were stopped for hours between antioch and pittsburgh bay point. buses transported those between the three stops. crews got the train back on track by 10:30 this morning. the future of the oakland a's remains extremely

uncertain, turbulence in oakland, in las vegas and a possible temporary move to sacramento. each day it seems it is something new. reportedly, officials were in sacramento today to negotiate the temporary move to sutter health ballparks, until their las vegas ballpark is ready in 2028. yesterday, the a's met with oakland officials to negotiate a lease extension at the coliseum. but the a's told us they are far from an agreement with oakland. sutter health park in sacramento is currently home to the giants aaa affiliate, the sacramento river cats. and is a much smaller ballparks in the oakland coliseum and the move out of the bay area could cost the a's about $67 million a year in their broadcast revenue. talking and listening, sometimes that is the hardest thing for people to do when trying to understand each other. in our continuing series, race in america, conversations are necessary to build bridges and communities. in silicon valley, one man has a different approach to get

people to show up just as they are. >> you have to put some love on it. >> reporter: jackie johnson effectually known as miss jackie has been cooking up barbecue and soul food. here at jackie's place in san jose since 2020. >> order up. >> i don't want this tradition to go away. the food that we were brought up on, there is a story behind it. >> reporter: her story was showcased in february in silicon valley's lighthouse cultural tour. see my part of what we are doing here is to make sure our culture is represented in this fast silicon valley. >> it really is about being able to shine that light so that people can be seen, heard and included. >> reporter: to do that, quincy phillips created lighthouse silicon valley, a nonprofit that works to give vulnerable communities more opportunity and access. he launched a pop-up passport series to engage different communities.

originally from the south side of chicago, phillips came to the bay area more than a decade ago with a mission to create a different narrative. >> when i first came here within the first year, created a hashtag, because that is how i felt. >> talk about personally why you thought this was a necessity in silicon valley? >> whether it is sitting on different boards, i was by myself. having to represent in a new way in terms of folks not being used to seeing us in this seat but also i try to be the voice of lived experience because that is the part that changes in those rooms. >> reporter: he hopes that change can come by a simple meet up and no pressure. the goal? >> creating a passport series allows folks to, as they are in a way they connect to the community and to the fabric and ecosystem of how we might get along over a bite to eat, a cup of coffee. >> reporter: other pop-up

events included a meet up at the coffee shop in nirvana soul in the antioch baptist church, one of the oldest black baptist churches in the south bay. >> this is not just about different ethnicities coming together and understanding it, it is really looking at diversity as a full circle thing. >> yes, what we are doing is not going to attach to a month of the year. is going to attach to us creating the right type of ecosystem for us all to get along. >> reporter: that ecosystem according to phillips is reimagining diversity, equity and inclusion. by using justice as a foundation, he calls it jedi. >> we see justice is getting the implantation right. remove those barriers, make it easier for everyone to get the things they get and you will see everybody's floor be raised and then there is no ceiling for us all. >> josi, when are you coming to daly city? >> reporter: daly city mayor cannot wait to team up with phillips. >> being able to be in community

and to feel community is a huge thing. >> reporter: in april, the series will be exploring the filipino heritage across the region. >> it is a continuous conversation. they want people to have a place to just be, as a filipina american who was raised in daly city, i do not really serve the filipino community but i serve the latina community, we have a large asian population, immigrant community. >> reporter: in the fall, a series will be hosted amplifying champions of disability, building safe spaces , phillips hopes, will allow others to learn, grow, and connect in new ways. >> martin luther king's i have a dream speech, it wasn't just that one part, it was also economic freedom. i am looking for the other folks who will take that cup of coffee to the next level. >> reporter: velena jones, nbc bay area news. >> to find out more about

future events for filipino heritage and champions of disability we have a link to lighthouse silicon valley's website on our website, nbcbayarea.com. april is earth month, today san francisco mayor london breed kicked off some festivities at city hall. she was joined by various city and community environmental advocates. she says the city is committed to protecting the earth and highlighted the efforts of hundreds of companies to go green. >> today we have about 900 businesses including oracle park and chase center. the marriott marquis in the same regions they're all certified under the san francisco green business program and our airport is one of the cleanest, greenest, anywhere in the country. >> the mayor says the city's overall emissions have decreased by 48% and continues to aggressively meet its clean energy goals. preparing for the upcoming solar eclipse.

why it is so important to protect your eyes during the event and the work that goes into making those special glasses that you may wear on monday, that is coming up. the storm is starting to move

i am excited for this. the total solar eclipse is on monday. it is a sight to see but if you don't use the proper protection you can do some real damage to your eyes. >> doctors warn, do not use your normal sunglasses as protection during a clips viewing, they don't have the proper amount of protection to filter out the most harmful rays that come from direct observation of the sun. ophthalmologists warm even a brief glance without protective glasses can damage or vision. see my people are curious, they want to take a look and they look directly at the sun. what they are doing is basically using a magnifying glass to focus the semiskilled

light sterically onto their retina. it causes thermal damage to those photoreceptors which can often times be permanent. >> another warning, take a clips glasses. the better business bureau is tracking umbrella take classes being sold by scammers. the real ones you want are marked by this number. iso 12312-2. of course, the demand for these glasses are through the roof right now and tonight we look inside the world's largest manufacturer of these protective glasses. here is samantha johnson. >> reporter: this is a look inside american paper optics, the largest 3-d optics manufacturer in the world. a clips ears are a pretty big deal around here. >> it is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, right? >> reporter: that means jason and his staff have been preparing for this year's total solar eclipse of the last eclipse in 2017. >> when 2017 happened we made

45 million classes for that. >> reporter: this year is bigger and better. this team is making close to 75 million glasses for april 8th. >> here's the thing about it, i think a lot of people think you put a sheet into a machine and the glasses come out but it is a really complex process. >> it starts with printing sheets, cutting out the eyeholes, and then gluing on the lenses, not to mention stripping those glasses to be folded, stacked, bagged and shipped. >> our staff is usually 35 people and now we are closer to 90. >> reporter: these folks also make eclipse glasses for nasa so that means out at ims on april 8th, more than 180,000 of these glasses will make their way to's seed way. >> having 100,000 people together all enjoying it at the same time, there is that come by our kind of moment that i think everybody will love, we are excited. >> we are not going to have a total totality, we only have

35%? >> it is considered a partial eclipse for us. we have to go to the midwest. >> we will still be able to see something, though. with the glasses or those creative science projects where you kind of get the image onto cardboard. i will have a look here at where we think the eclipse is going to be the best across the country here. we are going to start off the weather forecast with that eclipse and will take it into our rain chances in the colder temperatures. here we go, solar eclipse again next monday, as we just heard, make sure to have that i protection if you are planning to look up at this eclipse as we also talked about, using our sunglasses or even if you think you will get clever and double your sunglasses up with another pair, it is just not going to be good enough. eye protection, number one first. as we can into monday's forecast, we will see this partial eclipse beginning at 10:14 in the morning. that is basically when the sun, moon and earth will align. the sun obscured by about 34%

here. we will reach our version of the maximum eclipse at 11:13 in the morning and this will start to invite 12:15, just after noon. when it comes to the best path, the path of totality, that will come into play from texas right up toward the midwest. the probably get into, right now the forecast has thunderstorms and clouds, as you go toward texas, oklahoma, parts of missouri and arkansas, the best weather right now, the way things are playing out at this point, looks like it could be indianapolis. if you had the ability to go anywhere, reno indianapolis looks like it could have the best forecast and also right in the path of totality. super exciting stuff and even if you cannot get there, of course there's going to be video and we will have all that coverage. across the bay area, colder system dropping down, we felt it david temperatures going 10 to 15 degrees colder as we head into tomorrow.

also a chance of rain and thunderstorms mixing in. through tomorrow's forecast of 6:30 in the morning, a chance of heavier pockets that could have some of those embedded thunderstorms, may be producing small hail because there is so much cold air aloft with this one. it will quickly move over to the east bay peninsula and the south bay with widespread coverage rain by 9:00 in the morning. after the morning, we will head into these on-again, off-again pockets of scattered rain and thunderstorms through tomorrow night and we stay with that same scenario of scattered rain , sun mixing in at times, and as we go all the way into friday's forecast. right now, most nonstop widespread coverage of rain looks to hit us as we roll through tomorrow morning. rainfall totals tomorrow, quarter to a half inch. the higher elevations would have a better bet of a half- inch but we could still get spots around oakland, dublin, fremont, and around los gatos around a half an inch. through friday's forecast, trace amounts to about 2/10 of

an inch. the other thing is going to be a little bit of wind. it will not be superstrong but i do see winds popping up as the cold front moves across by about 2:30 tomorrow. 15 to about 30 miles per hour into the mountains. a little bit of rain but the biggest thing will also be the coldest temperatures, down here in the low 40s across the bay area. 41 in the tri-valley. over to the east bay, 42 and for the north bay, right here at 40. daytime highs, this is a hard turn for us after 70s to start the week. 52 in napa, 55 in concord. 53 in morgan hill. you want warmer weather, we will have it as we go into next week's forecast. 67 next tuesday, 70 next wednesday. look at the inland valley forecast, up to 80 next wednesday. that is huge, 55 to 80. how is that? >> that a significant. >> i can't wait for next wednesday. >> bring winter and summer. all wrapped up in a week.

up next, the games go on

the drama and bad blood continue about the a's future. the players keep showing up, they are caught in the middle of this. >> a heartbreaking finish of the coliseum, the a's wrapping up a three-game series against

the red sox, usually there would be huge crowds for the red sox in town. today's attendance, about 6000 fans. sad to see this. the new a's picture came over from the giants, he looked great with seven strong innings, gave up just one run. the a's were down 1-0 going into the ninth, here's a come back. two outs in the bottom of the ninth, the a's had runners at first and third. ryan strikes out, ballgame over. a's lose, 1-0. they are 1-7 to start the season. as for the nba, the regular season is winding down fast. every game continues to be important for the warriors playoff push. the warriors have seven games remaining in last nights win against the maverick helps inch them closer to the play in game. they are currently in the 10th and final spot in the playoff race. they have a three-game lead over houston for that final spot. if the season ended today, the warriors will play the lakers and the winner would move on. the loser would go home. the warriors next game is tomorrow in houston.

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a massive storm system is wreaking havoc to maine to florida. in the past 24 hours, 12 tornadoes were reported across six different states alabama, illinois, tennessee, ohio, georgia and kentucky. three tornadoes hit kentucky alone. this is video from prospect, kentucky. you can see the damage. twisters uprooting trees, knocking down power lines and crushing homes. as the storm system continues to move east, millions of people are now under wind alerts and flood watch is. so far two people have died. sure self driving cars just got a new job, delivering for uber eats. the partnership launched today in arizona. uber says only some restaurants in the phoenix area are eligible for waymo delivers right now but the list is growing. this isn't the first time uber

and waymo have worked together. in october, uber started offering rides in waymo's self driving cars, also in phoenix. amazon is making a change to its fresh supermarket. is doing away with the pay system. cameras and sensors track which items shoppers pick up, charging them automatically when they leave. amazon says customer feedback prompted its decision to ditch the system. customers said they wanted to view their receipt as they shopped and know how much they were saving on deals. amazon says it will start relying more heavily on dash carts which track and tally up items as you shop. jay-z's made in america festival is canceled for the second year in a row. the annual festival was expected to be held in philadelphia over labor day weekend but today the festival announced it will not move forward. no specific reason was given. last year, the festival was

canceled a month before it was scheduled to take place. at that time, organizers said it was due to severe circumstances outside their control. we have a lot more news ahead, jessica aguirre joins us now with what is coming up next. >> we have a tie for the number two spot. that makes it a three-man race to see who will represent silicon valley on capitol hill. one of the biggest races in the state showing why every vote really does count. now what happens? scott joins us in a few minutes with the answer. rescue teams in taiwan continue their search for survivors after that major earthquake. we are asking local experts how the bay area would fare after a 7.4 quake. a minor arrested after a deadly high-speed chase in san jose. what we are learning from neighbors and how the city plans to make the intersection safer. the news at 6:00 start right now. good evening and thanks for being with us.

>> we are going to start overseas, more than 100 people are still missing after that 7.4 earthquake hits taiwan yesterday. at least nine people we know have been killed and hundreds more have been injured. 24 hours later, rescuers are in the thick of this battle, coming through the rubble of toppled buildings, tunnels and even minds. engineering teams are also on the ground assessing the damage to the infrastructure. the white house has pledged assistance but the time in his government says while the well wishes are appreciated, for now, the country does not need help. >> all major airports, highways , high-speed trains, are working as normal. >> reporter: the quake struck just as people were heading to work in school yesterday, it was felt across the island including in the capital city of taipei where students from san francisco's school are studying abroad. the students are safe and were

able to quickly communicate with their parents after that earthquake. most of us are well acquainted with the earth shaking but a 7.4 , those images out of taiwan have a lot of people wondering here what a quake of that size would do to the bay area. we spoke with quake experts about one of our most dangerous active hotlines and she joins us now from hayward. >> reporter: it does not take long to see the impacts of past earthquakes here with uneven pavement and cracks spread throughout the area. the neighborhood sits along the hayward fault line which experts say has a high likelihood of experiencing a major earthquake in the next 12 years. but are we prepared? >> the following is 100 feet down the hill. >> reporter: residents in hayward are not new to earthquakes or the promise of the big one that experts say is on the way. >> is redwood, really sturdy. >> reporter: is