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being issued to protesters. fallout from the conviction of donald trump. we break down what's next and the possible impact in the race for the white house. this is today in the bay and good morning. happy friday. i'm ginger conejero saab in for laura garcia and i'm marcus washington. we want to take a look at the forecast coming up for you in a bit with meteorologist kari hall. but first, want to check in with mike inouye because, mike, you're tracking a big traffic alert for folks down in the south bay. that's right. highway 101 is shut down right now as you travel north from mountain view and in through palo alto, just north of san antonio. we've had a deadly crash. northbound 101 had a crash at about 3:00 in the morning. the situation evolved from a single vehicle on the right shoulder and into a light pole to another big rig on scene. and then they noticed two more vehicles. they've closed down the northbound side. the coroner was called at 4:00, typically, it takes about 90 minutes at this time of day for the coroner to arrive on scene, so i'll watch the progress. but

if you're traveling north out of mountain view, avoid 101. use el camino real. you can use bayshore road, which is along a frontage road here, or you can use 280 to get past the entire area. back to you. thanks, mike. we begin this morning with breaking news in santa cruz, where it has been a chaotic night. law enforcement officers are trying to break up a blockade at the west entrance to the uc santa cruz campus. earlier this week, pro-palestinian activists set up the makeshift blockade and as a result, campus was closed and classes have been held virtually right now, it's not clear if any arrests have been made, but chp did declare it an unlawful assembly. our tom jensen is there and will have a live report in our next half hour. our other top story this morning, the landmark verdict against donald trump jurors in new york city yesterday convicted the former president on all 34 counts of falsifying business records. all this to keep quiet. his alleged affair with an adult actress ahead of

the 2016 presidential election. today in the bay's brie jackson is live in washington. and bree, what what is the reaction this morning on capitol hill? good morning, ginger marcus. so here on capitol hill, top republicans, they are rallying around the former president. but house speaker mike johnson claimed that the conviction was a purely political exercise, not a legal one. former president donald trump found guilty of all 34 counts of falsifying business records. mario the first time a former president has been convicted of a crime. this was a rigged, disgraceful trial. shock and surprise that what happened not not really. i mean, i think we didn't think we were going to get a fair shake in, in manhattan and we didn't manhattan district attorney alvin bragg brought the criminal charges against trump. i did my job. our job is to follow the facts and the law without fear or favor. former trump attorney

michael cohen was a key witness in this trial. he testified that trump knowingly made payments to adult film star stormy daniels in an effort to cover up an alleged affair before the 2016 election. it's accountability. it's exactly what america needs right now. republicans are rallying around their presumptive gop nominee. i can't believe the hoax, this sham, this absolute injustice justice system. in a statement, the biden campaign said it respected the rule of law. both presidential candidates are using trump's legal battles to gain support. americans are divided over the former president's conviction. i think that if we have a president that's possibly be a felon, i don't think that's good for the country. i'm not sure that it might sway it a little bit for trump because of us seeing how unfair that was to him. voters will have their say in november,

and former president trump will be sentenced on july 11th. that's just four days before the republican national convention. ginger marcus. all right. brie jackson in washington this morning. brie. thank you. and our coverage of this story continues online at nbcbayarea.com. we have an entire section dedicated to it. just click on the donald trump tab in the trending bar. you can read more about the hush money case as well as more reactions to the verdict and what happens next. u.s. secretary of state antony blinken continues his visit to the czech republic today. he's meeting with nato foreign ministers to prepare for this summer's leader summit, as the alliance boosts support for ukraine. now they're aiming to remove restrictions on how kyiv can use western supplied weaponry to combat russia's invasion. this comes a day after president joe biden gave ukraine the go ahead to use american munitions to strike inside russia for the limited purpose of defending kharkiv, he said. ukraine has the absolute right

to defend itself from attacks originating on russian soil. mexico is expected to make history. the country appears poised to elect its first female president, and that's because the two candidates at the top of the polls are both women. one is claudia sheinbaum, a member of the current mexican president's party. she also studied physics and engineering at cal here in the bay area now, her nearest rival is socal galvez, who is a representing a trio of parties. the u.s. could also play a major role in deciding who will win, and that is because for the first time, mexicans living abroad are able to vote in the presidential election. mexicans living here can vote either by mail or in person at any mexican consulate on sunday. anybody who's not paying attention is obviously being derelict in their responsibilities to do right by our country, by making sure that our neighbors are a healthy democracy, that they're stable. the president of mexico serves one six year term, and a

recent political campaigns in mexico have been marred by violence. nbc news reports that since september, 34, candidates for various offices have been killed, with many of those murders believed to be linked to cartels. paul pelosi is expected to take the stand today against his attacker in the state trial. david depape is already serving a 30 year sentence after his federal conviction this week. the state trial started and yesterday jurors saw the now infamous video of depape hitting pelosi with that hammer at their san francisco home with his wife, nancy pelosi. now they also heard testimony about his statements following his arrest. defense attorneys are now disputing that evidence, instead trying to raise questions about the mental state. now, deputies are revealing video of a violent attack this week on a vta platform. they say led to a lengthy standoff and finally an arrest. now we are about to show you that video and we want to warn you it is hard to watch.

now, investigators say the suspect randomly attacked a man at the vta station near san jose's children's discovery museum on wednesday. that happened in the afternoon. you can see that the victim gets repeatedly punched and kicked. authorities say he suffered some serious cuts and abrasions, but is expected to fully recover. the attacker allegedly ran from the scene and barricaded himself inside a nearby home. authorities later arrested 26 year old andrew perez. he's now facing charges including attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon. the white house is now promising a full scale review on this year's botched rollout of new fafsa college application process. now, it was problematic from the start. this is when the education department launched a new process for submitting financial aid applications. technical issues led to long delays, and because inflation tables were never adjusted, it led to more delays. by the time families that are normally learning about that aid were then learning how they qualified

for many of the application processes. now, many colleges ended up extending admission notification deadlines. the doe is now promising its own full scale review of the federal student aid office that's happening tomorrow. hawaii is expanding its power shut off program in anticipation of a dry summer, which could pose a risk for wildfires. hawaiian electric says starting tomorrow, it may preemptively shut off power in areas which have long periods of forecasted high winds and dry conditions. now, this comes after those deadly fires ripped through the island of maui last august. the islands affected in the shut off are maui, oahu and hawaii. hawaiian electric says it will expand the program to all, all high risk areas on the island that it serves. 509 and happening today. east bay leaders will announce plans to reshape paratransit with the help of a federal grant. the contra costa transportation authority, better known as

county connection, has received more than $1 million to develop a new real-time open standards booking system. the agency is working with mobility matters. this is a transportation provider for seniors. representative mark desaulnier will actually be among those attending that news conference at 130 this afternoon. all right. well, we made it to that friday on our on our long week here. yeah. and taking a live look at the golden gate bridge where. well, it's looking it's looking beautiful. you can see that sun rising but we'll meteorologist kari hall is going to tell us if it's going to clear up even more. yeah. it's going to be a nice sunny day. also, warmer temperatures as you're heading to work in the north bay or maybe heading toward the golden gate bridge, we are going to see a clear view in temperatures in the low 50s. over the next couple of hours, we will see a quick warm up again today as it heats up into the mid 70s at noon, and eventually up to 83, in novato. in oakland it will be 75 today. really nice and comfortable, but

still hot in the inland valleys with mid to upper 80s even up to 90 today in fairfield and antioch. today also will see highs in the low 90s. we'll be tracking the cooler temperatures for the weekend coming up. mike, hopefully you're seeing those numbers coming down as well. you know, at least they're holding steady. they're not coming down a lot, carrie, but they are holding steady at these numbers we've been seeing. we'll talk about the lowest in fremont for 39 at valero on grimmer boulevard in the north bay. the next number here is 449. that's at vallejo's best central central gas on springs road. and then in the south bay, we shine a light on cupertino car wash with that city's low of 453 a north de anza boulevard. i'm sure there's a deal. if you get a car wash with your fill up. this is all done here on gasbuddy.com. com thank you for sharing those prices out on the roadway. we do have the one major issue, the full stop for northbound 101 just past san antonio. so you cannot enter the freeway at san antonio. you'll have to enter north of there, maybe a embarcadero. the oregon expressway onramp is the next

one that's open. if you're traveling from south of there, like mountain view, use bayshore road. you're taking you past the municipal facility on this map, but that starts back over near the ravenswood shopping center. use that as your option right now. back to you. all right. thanks, mike. and celebrating a milestone in life saving medical care coming up on today in the bay we mark the last day of ana p i month by highlighting the critical work one health service provider gives to an underserved bay area community. plus, big changes coming for taxpayers the tax filing program, the irs now plans to make permanent, and why it may lead to more money in

taking out martinez with a look at our temperature trend going from 60 right now to sunshine as we go throughout the rest of the morning and in the upper 70s. by noon, it's going to be a very warm day once again. but cooling down this weekend, we'll check out those numbers coming up. and we're looking at 101 actually, our view from university at palo alto northbound with these headlights. this looks standard, but actually folks are entering the freeway at the embarcadero and oregon expressway on ramps. you are cut off from mountain view because of a deadly crash just north of san antonio road. again a portion of north 101 is closed. coming into palo alto, you'll use bayshore road. we have a crew on scene. folks will bring you more coming up. but

first, this morning we continue to amplify the aa and nhpi community, where we shine a light on a nonprofit, a local nonprofit which provides health care for underserved community members. we're talking about the asian health services, as it's celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. the services locations all over alameda county, they provide what it calls whole patient health care, like primary and dental and mental health services. they mainly focus on caring for asian community members regardless of income, insurance or immigration status. and one special service the patients especially appreciate is they provide care in the language the patients speak. like korean, mandarin, vietnamese. they have 14 languages they speak in total. we spoke with the ceo more about it. i mean, we have patients that come over 30 miles just to come to see us because they know that they can get a provider that speaks their language, but

also because we tailor our services to our community's culture. we also spoke to one woman who receives care at asian health services. she says she goes there specifically because they speak shanghainese again, along with 13 other languages. they just, service is a perfect, we were underinsured when she came to us, but, asian health services helped us clean up her insurance. so that she can get some health care. so they also advocate and support people impacted by asian hate. they sponsor legislators, they spread awareness. they provide programs to help victims navigate their emotions and report the crime. they help them become acculturated to something that's so different from what they might be used to. i'm honored to emcee their gala again this year. i've been doing so for over five, maybe seven years. this year again is their 50th anniversary celebration. later in september. we have many more stories. website. just head to

nbcbayarea.com slash kanpai to see more stories on this topic. back to you guys. yeah, not a better person to emcee that. thank you sir. thanks. well, the irs is making its new free tax filing program permanent. the agency launched the pilot version of direct file earlier this year for people in dozens of states where certain simple tax returns were filed. now, more than 140,000 taxpayers successfully filed their returns . well, next year, the irs will allow some taxpayer in all states and washington, dc use direct file, although not all states may choose to participate. tyc toc is reportedly working on cloning its algorithm to create a us only version now that would work independently from its chinese parent company, bytedance. reuters says tiktok is trying to show u.s. lawmakers the business operates freely from its owner in beijing. tiktok is already suing the us government over a

new law, which gives bytedance until january 19th to pass control of the app to someone else or face a ban. tiktok however, is denying the reuters report and trending this morning. here's a question for you could i help you find mr. or mrs. right? i don't need to tell them. i can tell you yes i am all right. but no. but according to bumble's founder, it actually could soon be reality artificial intelligence may 1st day do the dating for singles. a local matchmaker says that the goal here is for ai to save people some time. it would actually connect people with those profiles and talk to people to help break the ice and see if the connection will be there for them. between the real people and i, i could actually be able to chat with up to 600 people at a time to help narrow down someone who's more compact, able to you matchmaker kelly newmar actually with its just launch, says that you may miss that

initial in-person spark if you use artificial intelligence, you find your person quality over quantity, quantity. there has to be that authentic connection, the connection that is pure and true and sweet and genuine. and they're using chatbots. so a lot of singles are going to be hiding behind a chatbot, she says. singles could see an increase in catfishing or scams with the use of i never thought about that, but that's true. as if dating wasn't hard enough, there's a way to do that anymore. i know i would never survive these days. i know, but i'm a big fan of watching married at first sight, and i think that's there's nothing that can replace that spark that you have with that person. so even if all of the other stuff matches up, you know, your

compatible in other ways to get, you know, i just don't know if technology can do that. sometimes the things you don't necessarily like, you might like in that person. right. it happens. so you know, it's the whole package, right? so when you see it in action, you're like, oh, okay, marcus, you wasn't talking about you. i know, i know, it's true. you are the whole package. you are everything. thank you. yeah. all right, well, let's talk about this beautiful weather that we are going to see this weekend. enjoying some sunshine. it has been warm these past couple of days, and the warm weather continues today as well. as you're heading out, we are going to continue to see more sunshine and it's a cool morning. but this will be a warm end to the month of may as our temperatures once again for the inland areas head for the upper 80s and then it will be slightly cooler for the weekend and some storms across the pacific northwest next week. we return to summer like and hotter than what we had yesterday. so take a look at our

highs across the south bay mid 80s for san jose and morgan hill, low 80s for san martin in dublin today we'll see a high of 84 degrees and 80 in napa will be in the mid 80s in santa rosa. and then looking at tomorrow's forecast low 80s there upper 70s for napa. it's going to be a beautiful weekend. also much more comfortable with the breezy wind, but we are staying cool near the coastline. not only tomorrow but also sunday. and if you're going out to the giants game this evening, it's going to be windy. cool temperatures in the 50s where your hoodies, your sweaters, even the gloves if you want because it's going to be chilly out there and then looking at lafayette the next ten days, we've been talking about the potential of hitting some low 90s, and after a nice, cool weekend, we're going to see those temperatures spiking on wednesday into thursday. we are also once again tracking those storms across the pacific northwest. it gets very close to us on monday, but then it looks like it just kind of skips to the north. we see more clouds

and then right after that, high pressure builds in, our temperatures will be heating up into the low to mid 90s inland, while san francisco is going to see temperatures in the low to mid 70s. and mike, you're still tracking that major crash. carrie. in fact, our photographer has gotten there at just north of the scene. he's got a position where you can see coming toward us. that's northbound 101. you also see nothing's coming toward us right now on the freeway just across, you see folks heading across over to bayshore road. and that is just on the left side of the screen. you see the bicycle sign there. that's the frontage road where folks are traveling north along the freeway. you see the signs for the exits southbound, and everything is moving smoothly there. so we'll take it to the maps. we're going to show you what's going on here. northbound is blocked basically from where the camera is all the way north to embarcadero oakland oregon expressway. you can use bayshore, bayshore road alongside the freeway as your alternate. another option is el camino. and then 280. we'll get you clear. completely clear of all of that activity. this is blocking this part of the freeway, the northbound

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campus, where there is basically a standoff between palestine solidarity demonstrators and police, a huge police force that arrived on campus just after midnight. we'll be back with a live report on this. you

see santa cruz authorities are vowing to clear out protesters

blocking a campus entrance. we're live there. this morning with the simmering tensions involving demonstrators and law enforcement. the real verdict is going to be november fifth by the people, and they know what happened here. guilty on all felony charges. well, yesterday's history making verdict have any impact on the november election. we are getting new insight from one expert on what's next for donald trump. this is today in the bay friday morning is here. and good morning to you. i'm marcus washington and i'm ginger conejero saab laura garcia is off this morning. now we will get a look at the forecast ahead with meteorologist kari hall. but first let's check in with mike inouye, who's tracking a big traffic alert over in the south bay. yeah, we actually just had one lane reopen. i talked about 530 being when we thought there would at least be some changes. this deadly crash, though, happened northbound 101. you see the jam approaching us

all the activity over on the right side. but there is a big rig, i believe, that got moved from the center divide again. one lane coming toward us. the map right here. i'm going to show you northbound 101 is jammed. it's closed basically from san antonio up to embarcadero. so if you're getting onto the freeway from the peninsula, take bayshore road or maybe a middlefield, or even el camino to get up to embarcadero, then you can travel north on 101 again. that crash has got all but one lane now blocked, and there is a considerable backup, and it continues to build with traffic out of the south bay along the peninsula. we don't usually see slowing on this portion of the commute at this time. 280 completely clear. so that's a great option for you and this will be a distraction if you're coming across the dumbarton bridge and heading south. but it will not impede your traffic flow anywhere north of the dumbarton bridge. aside from this area of the peninsula, everything else is moving very smoothly. because it is friday, we have a lighter volume of traffic. there's just a slowing out of the altamont pass with minor crash and a disabled vehicle. there we'll track this on the peninsula again. one lane open northbound 101. now just north of san antonio. back to

you. good to know. thanks, mike. well, there's some breaking news this morning at uc santa cruz. this is where chp officers are moving in on the campus, clashing with palestinian solidarity demonstrators today in the bay's tom jensen live for us in santa cruz. this morning. and, tom, you know, there was quite a clash between chp officers as well as those demonstrators. good morning marcus. yeah, you can see they're still basically in a standoff situation here at the entrance to the campus. the palestine solidarity demonstrators are refusing to comply with those demands. the huge police force from several agencies, chp in charge in riot gear, arrived on campus just after midnight. they demanded the demonstrators leave and began tearing down the encampment. the demonstrators resisted and locked arms, refusing to comply with those orders. they're demanding the uc system divest all aid to israel and companies that support israel's war in gaza. but chp

declared the demonstration an unlawful assembly. and these folks turn their cameras on chp. we gotta make sure that we have history of you defending genocide. we see you. we see you being dispersed immediately. you disperse. demonstrators chanted free palestine and people united will never be divided, as they resisted the strong police action that involved chp and agencies from surrounding areas here. and as you can see, there still in this standoff position, the police say that they're going to make some arrests. i talked to one photographer on the scene here. he said he's witnessed at least six people get arrested. so far, we've reached out to chp for more of those numbers, but so far we haven't heard back from at this point. we also have not heard back from the uc system, about what they plan to do as far as the encampment goes, these folks

say that they will not leave this encampment back to you. marcus. yeah, certainly a foggy start there with so much going on. thank you tom. now we will continue to monitor this breaking news, both on air as well as online. make sure you download our free nbc bay area app. that way you'll find out what's happening and you can find that information on your local app store. 534 now in a historic verdict, jurors convict former president donald trump on 34 counts of falsifying business records. prosecutors argued his actions were meant to cover up his hush money payment to adult actress stormy daniels. days before the 2016 presidential election, jurors returned yesterday with the verdict following nearly ten hours of deliberations. sentencing for mr. trump is scheduled for july 11th. that is just days before the republican national convention in milwaukee. his attorneys, already promising to appeal. now joining us this morning is doctor melinda jackson, a political science professor at san jose state

university. doctor jackson, this is a historic morning. we're focusing on the fallout from this verdict. talk to us about where you think the impact of this will fall. right. well, i think that it's probably not going to affect donald trump's support among his base, but going into the november election, we're really focusing on those moderate voters, those independent voters, those folks who are maybe still on the fence and having 34 felony convictions is likely to do not play well with those voters who are still trying to make up their minds. i mean, i know in listening to yesterday's coverage, there are new numbers, polls that have been really trying to predict what the behavior of voters will be, how accurate are some of those polls that, you know, come out this early on? right. well, we're still five months away from the election. so you always want to take the early polls with, you know, appropriate caution. they get more accurate

the closer we get to election day. it's also not always as accurate to ask voters what would you do if, you know, the hypotheticals are hard for people to really wrap their heads around? now we have a verdict. and now people can start processing that information. i see. so maybe that the question will be more concrete, at least at this point. we talk about the support from his voters. what about the support from the republican party? i mean, we saw that lawmakers were there at the trial showing their support for mr. trump, for the former president. how will this affect them? i don't think it's going to affect his support from the party too much either. he really has a pretty strong lock on the republican party at this point. but again, not the whole republican party. remember we had about 20% of voters in some states voting for nikki haley in the primary. and so those, again, more moderate republicans , particularly women, may be taking a second look. and this could really hurt him there.

interesting focus on specific demographics coming up to the election. okay. let's switch gears. let's talk about president biden. while this trial was happening, doctor jackson, we didn't hear too much from president, from president biden. but just minutes after the verdict, he did release a statement. his campaign released a statement. how will democrats, democrats use this guilty verdict leading up to the election without, you know, stating the obvious? yeah, right. well, i think we're going to hear the words convicted felon a lot. and, you know, biden is going to be focusing on a range of issues. but certainly his surrogates, his other supporters in the democratic party are going to be focusing a lot on this character issue. and again, emphasizing the fact that for the first time in history, we have a candidate and former president who is a convicted felon. quickly professor, what are you watching out for that's coming up? well, i think it will be interesting to see how the polls start to shift and how, again, those different demographics within the electorate respond to this information. it's going to be a

new election, you know, in november, it's not really a repeat of four years ago because we have a new electorate. we have new voters who have entered, who've, you know, turned 18 and are eligible to vote. now, it's going to be a really interesting thing, one to watch. and a lot has happened in the last four years. supreme court decisions included. thank you so much, doctor melinda jackson, political science professor at san jose state. thanks for waking up early with us. now, former president trump's attorney todd blanche, is speaking out this morning on today. we will hear from him coming up in our next half hour. the full interview will air coming up at the 7 a.m. newscast of the today. that is after today in the bay. marcus notorious killer, richard allen davis, may learn if he will have his death sentence overturned today. in 1993, davis kidnaped and murdered 12 year old polly klaas in petaluma. he abducted her during a slumber party at her mother's home. her body was never was only found two months later in sonoma county. davis is

now 79. his attorneys argue a recent law invalidates the sentencing enhancements from his prior convictions. prosecutors say that the new law does not apply. a santa clara county judge is expected to make that final ruling today. happening now a new warning for people in one fremont neighborhood where at least one mountain lion is on the prowl. security video this week shows the big cat scaling that fence. look at that. in another case, a cat was seen stalking an area near someone's front door. now, it's not clear if it is the same animal the video is from, or the same animal we see in the video from early wednesday. but that area south of warm springs neighborhood is on alert now. here's a better look at the location of each of those sightings. a mobile home park on dixon landing road. the other sighting on fair meadow way, just two miles away. police are telling neighbors don't run if you see a mountain lion. instead, put up your hands to

make yourself look as big as possible and make lots of noise. well, one of the bay area's largest water agencies is going large in response to our climate in crisis, east bay mud is unveiling a brand new solar energy production unit in orinda. this is near the briones reservoir. the agency says that it will more than triple its solar capacity and offset about 10% of its current energy costs. some of that money saved is expected to trickle down to ratepayers now by the end of the decade. east bay mud hopes to be carbon neutral when it comes to emissions, and the peninsula is heating up with the sounds of summer tonight, downtown redwood city is kicking off its popular series of outdoor events on courthouse square, with carnival , a santana tribute band. other acts will perform during music on the square throughout june, and movies on the square that starts next thursday, with arts on the square coming then june

14th. a lot happening there. city park and rec leaders call it the perfect chance to get out there. you really couldn't have a better place to ask for downtown events. we call it the community living room. it's a wonderful location. there's a vibrant downtown space, and then also our events in redwood city are unique in their size and scope and quality. we really want to bring a professional feel to all of our events beyond what you might expect out of a city. you know, we want to surprise people with how how awesome our events are. and you can visit the visit rwc dot org website for complete details. all right. let's check in with meteorologist kari hall. because there are so many things happening across the bay area this weekend. this is one of them. so how is it going to look for them? it looks perfect. i mean, we start out with temperatures at dinnertime in the low 70s, but it will be cooling down quickly as we go throughout the evening. you want to make sure you have a jacket and also as you're getting your spot to enjoy the music, just enjoying also the clear skies.

we're looking at so many events going on around the bay area, including festival italiana and san francisco. we're going to see both on saturday and sunday a lot of sunshine and temperatures going from mid 50s to low 60s, and it will become windy as we go throughout the day in san leandro. there's the cherry festival on saturday and the parade starts at 10 a.m. we're expecting temperatures right at about 60 degrees, but then going into the middle of the day, some upper 60s as it stays mostly sunny in walnut creek. the art and wine festival will be happening at heather farm park, and it's going to be very nice there as well. temperatures in the upper 70s on tomorrow, and it's definitely going to be cooler than what we will see today. so it's nice that we get that break for the weekend. and then in napa, we've got the lawn, the music festival, and it's going to be in the upper 70s for tomorrow. that high temperature in napa and up to 80 on sunday and if you want some cooler temperatures, maybe check out

ferry fest from the oakland ferry terminal terminal. you'll be able to do some of those ferry rides on the bay, and it will be in the upper 60s. mike highway 101, still down just the one lane. yeah. carrie if you look closely, folks, you see the cones extend all the way over to the fast lane. that's the lane that we're looking at over on our right. over on our left, we see the flashing lights. that's the on ramp for san antonio. it is closed to typical traffic. but the folks that are waiting, there are a few tow trucks. there are a number of vehicles. as i understand. there was a vehicle that was struck disabled when they hit something in the roadway. then they were subsequently struck by another vehicle that caused the deadly crash, or that was the deadly crash there. and so the scene still has to be addressed. and we can't move any vehicles until the coroner arrives and they complete that investigation. one lane northbound 101 still open north of san antonio road. we lit up those sensors again so they are okay. but approaching san antonio and on ramp at san antonio, that again is closed.

they're approaching san antonio bottlenecks because there's only one lane open. you can use middlefield. you can use bayshore road. you can also use el camino to get through on surface streets past that scene, or just jump on 280. if you're coming from the south bay, that will take you northbound from there. aside from that one patch on the peninsula, everything else moves pretty smoothly. back to you. thanks for those suggestions, mike. all right, 44 for you this morning, breaking barriers and taking her brand global. still ahead here on today in the bay for aanhpi month. we are highlighting one south asian woman making her mark in the beauty world, one brush at a time. stick around to find out that and so

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we are taking a live look from our sutro tower camera looking at the golden gate bridge. that's a beautiful shot. there we have a lot of sunshine in the forecast today and temperatures in the low 50s to start and reaching into the mid 60s. it's going to be also pleasant for the weekend. a little bit cooler for the valleys. we'll check that out coming up in a few minutes. and this is the major incident. the only real incident disturbing the friday commute right here because of lighter traffic flow, we expect a light traffic drive, but we're looking at only one lane northbound 101. you see how quickly the lane closes down from four lanes or five lanes to just one at san antonio road in northbound 101 will follow the progress on the investigation of this deadly

crash, and we'll talk about the impact it has on the rest of the peninsula coming up. well, all month we are continuing to celebrate and amplify aa and nhpi community. and one of the first south asian women to break into mainstream beauty is now using her talents and other things to empower women and girls globally. now, global beauty entrepreneur shalini vadhera, she actually started her business back in 2016, in india, and it grew into a global phenomenon and she started a nonprofit. it's called power, beauty living. with the launch at the un just to help women become entrepreneurs. her most recent beauty brand, ready set jet, and it's pass the baton initiative, is named for the company's famous beauty baton. she says the initiative raises funds and awareness to boost global access for women seeking training, schooling and funding. we really wanted to use beauty to give back to the next generation of girls and especially those that were

underserved, to skill them vocationally train them and give them a livelihood in a mission to break the generational cycle of poverty, brie ferreira says 95% of her investors are women, and this is giving other women the strength to make strides in their own career. she's organizing a power up retreat in september in tiburon, tiburon, and this is to help women learn how to manage their businesses. happening today, getting an early start on pride month, which is right around the corner. some bay area cities are flying their pride flags starting today, and that includes a flag raising at the historic beacon grand hotel in the heart of san francisco's union square. that's happening at 10 a.m. now, later across the bay at 1130, oakland leaders, including mayor shengtao, will raise the pride flag at city hall. well, maybe you didn't realize this, but tomorrow is international dinosaur day. for many, it's a day to get out and celebrate ancient natural history. well for today in the

bay's bob redell, it's a chance to have some fun and get a head start on the celebration. he's live this morning at alameda county fairgrounds, and bob, people there are trying to bring some dinosaurs back to life. well, you've got some replicas, of course, like right here, a styracosaurus behind me, an alberta saurus. and over there, i don't know the drunkest saurus. he's not standing upright. maybe it's a late thursday night for him, we've got erica gavins, who's with jurassic quest. you are officially a dinosaur trainer. and we say that because even though these are replicas, we do have one that's been brought back to life. who is this? right here. so this is trixie, the triceratops. she's one of our little baby dinos. you can see crystals holding her crystal. is. are you okay holding her? she's not, she doesn't get jumpy or anything like that. no, no, she doesn't. so this is a big hit for kids? yes. and when they come out, what do they get to do with that? so they get to pet

her. they get to play with her. take some photos as well, just walk around and just see dinosaurs in every single from the smallest ones all the way to the biggest ones. and is she okay with the camera lights? this isn't anything. she's a natural star. alright. yeah, i can see she's very, very excited. okay. and, is this an actual size of a baby triceratops? so our baby triceratops, they are about six weeks old. okay, this is really realistic. and we love get much bigger when they much, much bigger. like our little our big guy over here. yeah. okay. so we're looking at video or about you of what the events like. and you were telling me earlier, there's jurassic parks, the movie's been out for years. you still have a lot of kids coming in here. and you're trying to educate them. but generally speaking, they always they more know more than us most of the time. yes they're very enthusiastic, very knowledgeable, and they want to share their knowledge as well as gain more knowledge. so we love that here at jurassic quest. yeah, it's a good time. and what's the one thing that you're trying to impart upon these kids , basically that dinosaurs are always going to be around

whether, you know, like you mentioned, the movies or tv or film or whatever, they're always going to be around and active today. and speaking of active, you can actually ride some dinosaurs. not these in here, but i mean, actually, that's why i got tipped over because i jumped on him and, you know, anyways, but yeah, there's some of that, involved, so. okay. are you guys are here? you've been in san jose. you're here at the alameda county fairgrounds sunday until sunday, you can look at our, full screen up there. you can find the website. and i think if you say fossil. yep. fossil, you get 10% off. do you have to say fossil or can you mouth it? oh, you have to enter it online. online okay. but that's super fun. that's actually extra points. yeah. do that. all right, all right. hey, trixie. nice meeting you, sweetie pie. oh. she is. when does she start, getting teeth, probably in another month or so. vegetarian? yes. she is, yeah. so she eats a lot of salad, a lot of broccoli and plants, but luckily she doesn't nip or anything, so. and is she trained? does she have a diaper crystal or are you good? you're

not. oh yeah. she's okay. okay. she's she's a trained, trixie is a trained triceratops. so trained, jurassic quest, opening, opening up. hey, that was the first question i was asking because i used to handle velociraptor and they weren't trained. you know what i'm saying? you know, clean up on aisle three. yes, yes. all right . thanks, bob. all right. yeah. look up her stuff to do. inside, outside. there's so much going on there at the alameda county fairgrounds. and we're going to see some sunshine as we're heading out the door on this friday morning. we do have some nice weather. this will be a warm end to the month of may, with some of our valley temperatures back into the upper 80s today, but it will be slightly cooler for the weekend as we get several more storm systems going through the pacific northwest and next week some summer like heat coming our way. as you're stepping out right now, it's 62, in san jose, while in san francisco it is 50 degrees and we're in the upper 50s for dublin and we're going

to see those temperatures heating up for the afternoon. concord and livermore, 88 degrees 91, in fairfield, but mostly in the low 80s for fremont and in mountain view and then 70s up and down the peninsula and over toward oakland. in san francisco, expect a high of 66 degrees today and tomorrow. it's going to be comfortable. napa 79 degrees upper 70s across much of the south bay. the east bay as well. so much going on and you may be heading to the beach this weekend. santa cruz will have some comfortably cool weather in the upper 60s for both. saturday and sunday with sunshine. if you're going to tahoe this weekend, it's going to be in the low 70s at palisades, so we've transitioned from skiing to hiking officially there in the sierra and here in the bay area. a lot of festivals, fairs and outdoor events happening this weekend. it's going to be really nice. temperatures is up to about 80 degrees, but look at the high heat that's ahead next week. so we're definitely going

to enjoy the cooler weather this weekend. mike, you're seeing new activity now at the crash site. we are carey i'm standing in front of our live shot. we're on over crossing as we're looking down at northbound 101. still down to one lane. but you'll notice there's a truck here, a flatbed tow truck, and they're loading on one of the vehicles. this is not the vehicle. i don't believe that's the vehicle that suffered the deadly the victim of the deadly crash. but that is in the middle of the roadway. once they move that vehicle, then they can open, hopefully up another couple of lanes. we'll see as the progress continues. chp not changing the status of this, but notice the closure is more gradual and that's better news as the cones slow down and cause a more gradual funnel down to one lane. we're looking at that jam northbound 101. as you're traveling along the peninsula. those maps show the slow sensors only for this section. everything else moves smoothly. back to you. thanks, mike. well, happening now. today is the deadline to get your hands on unclaimed money from the state. it was set aside in 2022 to give some relief during the inflation. now people who qualified could receive up to

about $1,000. they were supposed to receive it by direct deposit or in a form of a debit card. but about 40,000 people have not yet paid any money. not claimed by tomorrow goes back to the state and if you see your own, and if you see your owed any money, you can actually point your camera to our qr code there on the screen and that will get you connected with the state. up next at 6:00, we're following breaking news out of uc santa cruz. the chp descends on an encampment overnight. we'll take you there live with an update as the school works to clear the entrance of its campus. plus preventing another tragedy in hawaii. the new measures being taken this weekend, nearly a year after wildfires wiped out an entire town stay

breaking news right now at six. officers move in on the protest encampment at uc santa cruz. the new orders being issued to protesters