this is the evening edition. we begin in oakland tonight where a celebration meant to honor graduating seniors suddenly turned ugly. >> good evening. i'm elizabeth cook. >> i'm ryan yamamoto. that commencement ceremony at skyline high had just wrapped up when gunfire suddenly erupted in the parking lot. our da lin spoke to students about the violence marring the memories of their special day. >> reporter: oakland police say the three people shot on campus are expected to survive, but they would not tell us if the victims were students or family members here for the graduation. [ speaking in a global language ] >> reporter: you see the five men and hear gunshots in this video posted on social media. witnesses say a fight led to the shooting after skyline high school's graduation. >> we completely ducked flat and laid on our backs until we stopped hearing gunshots. so we went into the main office. >> reporter: skyline high graduate trayvon aubrey said he

first heard two shots. he said a short time later he heard two to three more shots. >> i was just hoping that my family was okay because i was hoping it wasn't them or one of my friends. it scared the life out of me. >> reporter: he had dozens of family members and friends on campus. it was supposed to be a joyous day as he and other seniors received their diplomas. >> i was on the verge of crying. people were crying for me. they were so excited for me. >> reporter: about an hour after this video was taken gunfire erupted at around 7:45 p.m. as people were leaving. oakland police say two groups of people got into a fight in the school's parking lot. it's unclear how many people opened fire. police say the shooting injured three people. investigators say they detained multiple people and arrested one person who is an adult. they say they're looking for additional shooters. >> i'm going to try and not let it ruin the experience and i think the important thing, i was with family. i was with friends. >> it's hard to sleep. it's

hard to eat. we've done this before. it's honestly worse because like our families are here and don't have experience with this, but we do. >> reporter: skyline high started the school year with a shooting on september 5th, 2023. no one was seriously injured and police arrested three people in that case. trayvon witnessed that shooting as well. >> they were playing i think a dice game and then someone was playing around. they lost and they shot at the dude. >> reporter: trayvon says it's hard to start and end the school year with a shooting. he says even though skyline is known as one of the better high schools in oakland, he's glad he's going to college. >> mostly shooting, all i'm going to remember. i'm going to remember the shooting. >> reporter: oakland police would not say how the person arrested is connected to the school or the graduation. they're asking witnesses and people who took cell phone footage to contact them. >> the superintendent of oakland schools says the district is stepping up security at graduation ceremonies for the rest of this year just as a precaution. a santa rosa high school student has been arrested

following an on-campus fight where he was allegedly holding a knif thafight took place wednesday afternoon at montgomery high school campus. police say the 15-year-old student appeared to be grasping a folded knife when he stabbed another student. last march a 16-year-old was stabbed to death during a night inside a classroom. in the months following more students were arrested on weapons-related charges. we're following a developing story in san francisco where police are investigating a crash between a munibus and a motorcycle. this happened a little over two hours ago at 44th and balboa in the outer richmond neighborhood. here's a look at the scene. the motorcyclist was rushed to the hospital with unknown injuries. we're told no one on board the bus was hurt. officers are still looking into exactly what caused this crash. switching gears now, the memorial day weekend rush is

now well underway, as you can see on some of our roads there. here's a look at traffic conditions on our local bridges. if you're driving to your holiday destination this weekend and you haven't left yet, experts recommend sit tight. watch the newscast until about 8:00 p.m. and then you should depart. as if traffic wasn't already enough of a headache today, drivers on the bay bridge encountered this, a produce truck caught fire in the westbound direction late this morning bringing traffic to a crawl. crews have been working well into the afternoon trying to clean up the mess on the roadway. here's a look from our chopper just a little after 3:00 p.m. you can see they've still got some more work to do. with the travel rush underway for the memorial day weekend, aaa estimates more than 3.5 million people will fly nationwide. sfo expects almost 600,000 passengers. san jose is expecting about 400,000 and oakland international is expecting more than 130,000. >> take long weekend for us. i

work at the va hospital, so i automatically get the day off for the federal government. we were running behind. i usually try to get to the airport two to three hours early, but i was at work before coming here. i didn't even think about that it was memorial day weekend and traveling. let's take a live look outside, a bit cooler today after warm conditions earlier in the week and it's looking like those temperatures will drop even lower tomorrow. >> let's check in with first alert meteorologist darren peck. that fog and cloud cover definitely is rolling in. >> it's always a gray may, right? >> huge difference. the thing about that is like the last week it really wasn't. we had all this sunshine, 80s yesterday. let me show you what showed up today. the camera on top of mount diablo has this great vantage point of the clouds which have started filtering in over the mountains. you could see this beautiful display of the fog spilling in over the east bay hills and filtering in through

pretty much the rest of the inland parts of the bay. some of us cooled down like 15 degrees today from yesterday. it was a big drop and we are just getting started. it's going to get a little cooler tomorrow. i'll show you what that looks like coming up in the complete first alert forecast. for now, guys, back to you. some big cuts are coming to important statewide programs to deal with a massive budget shortfall. now a close ally of governor newsom is blasting his plan to close the budget gap. >> they obviously are very upset because they would hope somebody they spent a lot of money on would be better on their issues. >> at 5:30, how california teachers are sending a very public message to the governor urging him to reverse course. after today first republic bank will cease to exist. the san francisco-based institution failed in 2023 amid major turmoil for regional banks. jpmorgan chase is completing its takeover and closing the 25

remaining bay area branches. accounts for first republic customers will transition to chase over the weekend. let's give you a live look from union square where a new nintendo store is set to open next year. it will be their second official store in the u.s., joining new york city. there are also three nintendo store locations in japan, including this one in tokyo. i've been in there. the company says the new bay area location is a way for visitors from all over to experience their favorites from the world of nintendo. still ahead, why a bad hair day could be good for the environment. >> this is a renewable resource growing right in front of your eyes. mother nature was like look at this. this is useful. a growing backlash against closures at one of the south bay's biggest medical facilities, why critics are calling on the attorney general to investigate claims of discrimination.

meet the oakland teenager who was accepted to so many colleges the letters barely fit in a suitcase. find out whic

now to our original series project earth. >> yeah. today we're talking hair and how it can actually help save the planet. who knew? last week we showed you how human hair is now being turned into sustainable clothing. >> also a bay area company weaving hair into mats to mop up oil spills along our coast, now we're learning about another potential benefit all thanks to an experiment right here in the bay area. >> researchers at a top university and colleges at a national park are teaming up. they want to know if human hair can super charge our soil and help fight the impacts of climate change. >> our anne makovec shows us what happened when scientists tried to find out.

>> reporter: when it comes to hair, some research at cal is a cut above the rest. >> collection is wednesday? >> yes. >> reporter: in the department of environmental sciences ecosystem ecologist dr. wendy silver and visiting scholar dr. perez, the scientists are studying the biogeochemical effects of climate change. one strategy, grow more plants to pull the co2 from the atmosphere and lock it up in the soil. one way to do that may involve human hair. >> if it turns out this is the case, it would be very exciting. >> reporter: the scientists collected untreated hair from a local beauty salon. those strands were ground up and then put into tiny bottles. >> we take a very small amount, just 0.2 grams, and distribute that into the soil. >> reporter: that soil harvested from marin. in the

lab undergraduate kynittenberg added small amounts of the hair into jar sampled. eight weeks later some preliminary results. >> we began to see evidence the hair was beginning to break down. >> when we started to see the changes in the hair-amended soils, we had higher nutrient content. >> reporter: the hair was acting like a slow release organic fertilizer changing the bad soil into good. one possible explanation? hair contains nitrogen. >> hair breaks down slowly and that nitrogen is packaged in the hair in such a way that it's released slowly. >> reporter: in those jars scientists also measured nitrous oxide, a potent green house gas, but in this case no worries. >> in our experiment there were no plants, but if the plants had been there, there's a good probability that they would have been able to capture that nitrogen. >> reporter: resulting in slow prolonged growth which is what appears to be happening in experiments at the presidio.

>> we scattered it over these tiny plants that could barely make it and that has resulted in this beautiful meadow of bunch grasses that wouldn't have happened had we not put that hair down. >> reporter: louis stringer is an ecologist with the presidio trust. he is blown away by what he's seen. >> it's amazing. i would never have considered that hair could be so productive for helping us to restore these very harsh soils. >> reporter: the trust is experimenting with hair compost to see if it can help grow native plants in tough soil. the barren land seen here was treated with either straw mulch, hair, fertilizer, or nothing at all. the only green growth occurred with the hair. >> there's much more growth in those plots of hair than there is with just the fertilizer or with that compost itself. >> this is hair. this is hair. >> reporter: lisa gotier heads up matter of trust, a nonprofit based in san francisco that collected donated hair. the

nonprofit has partnered with the presidio and is also funding the research at cal. gotier said mother nature had it right. >> this is a renewable resource growing right in front of your eyes. mother nature is like look at this. this is useful. >> when i'm taking my hair off my cat or kidding my kids' hair, it always goes into my garden now. >> i'm starting to think about, you know, what else can hair do? >> reporter: making every day a good hair day. >> if you are inspired to toss your locks into your backyard plants, a word of caution. stay away from long hair. it can actually tangle up birds and harm them. matter of trust recommends little small bits of hair, even pet fur, that you can incorporate into your soil. we've got more tips on our website at kpix.com. >> great tip. the bottlerock festival in napa is officially underway. ♪ just like the white winged dove since a song sound like she's

singing ♪. >> there she is, tonight's headliner, stevie nicks, also hitting the stage tonight, megan thee stallion, nellie and saint vincent. here's a look at the chopper over the crowds gathering now. more than 120,000 people are expected to attend the festival over the next three days. tomorrow the festival will be headlined by rock icons pearl jam and maya. bottlerock wraps up on sunday with ed sheeran and queens of the stone age. for everything you need to know before heading to bottlerock, check out our guide on kpix.com. as we check in with darren peck right now as all those people are headed to napa to enjoy that music festival, it's going to be a little chilly. they'll have to bring some layers. >> for the morning hours. if you're not going to napa, it's definitely going to be chilly, but i think napa is one of the places if you get that far inland, especially sunday

and monday, it's going to be 70 and sunnier there. >> wow. >> for the rest of us, it's a totally different story and you're right about this, much cloudier and cooler today and there's a beautiful view now from our camera on top of mount diablo where we've been watching this over the afternoon. we're going to the big window on the bay and that's the scene from the top of mount diablo now and you can see all the clouds spilling in. yesterday that view was completely clear. if we look at this a different way, even higher than the camera on mount diablo. we'll go to satellite imagery today. this is a snapshot between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 today. the reason why the time is important, normally we just show you the satellite, but i wanted you to know the context how long a stretch of time you're looking at, from 10:00 a.m. up until 4:00 because typically the marine layer would have been gone by 10:00 at the latest and it stayed all day. what you're seeing is it spilling over the

city and the peninsula and get over towards the east bay. this has been a pretty gray and cool day as a result of a renewed onshore influence. we can look at what this means for daytime highs. we did most of the cooling today. i'm going to show you the daytime highs for tomorrow because they're almost identical, maybe a degree or two cooler. yesterday these numbers were in the 80s, daytime highs in the low to mid-80s in the south bay, tri-valley. today nobody got out of the 60s. we're looking at mid-60s through much of the bay. you can see temperatures across most of the rest of inland parts of contra costa county. everybody got a noticeable cooldown today. you didn't need to be right on the water or through the immediate golden gate to really feel the difference. these numbers for saturday are the bottom. we're going to start gradually warming up once we round the corner into sunday. we'll look at the forecast imagery because there's one other item for saturday which stands out because if that was our marine layer today, it's going to be

a lot more widespread saturday. in fact, everybody will wake up and it will be marine layer gray pretty much bay area-wide and there's going to be a little misting at the coast. tomorrow is even grayer because a lot more of us will be under it and it's going to be a little more persistent, but there will be sun saturday because as we get into the afternoon, you can see that stuff melts away. we get a nice break. skies will clear out. you'll have a nice saturday afternoon, but saturday morning is pretty gray. you can see some rain out of this. i refer to this more as marine layer mist because it's not like it rains, but it does mist and it mists persistently along the coast tomorrow and in the east bay hills. look out here towards sunol where you get measurable rain, even though it will be fairly light stuff. that's saturday. sunday we'll turn the corner and start a warming trend, but saturday, your carnaval forecast, you don't make it into the 60s.

sunday you will. you can see the second half of the carnaval forecast sunday afternoon is a little more sunshine and a little warmer. that covers that one microclimate. i'll give you the specific forecast on bottlerock as well. those numbers are going to climb well into the 70s. you can see that showing up. look at the number by sunday, big difference. saturday is the day it's gray in the most widespread way for the whole bay. it's going to be near 80 sunday and monday is just going to be even a little warmer. temperatures will go up a few degrees from that mark by the time we get to monday. let's see what this looks like in the seven-day forecast. the trend holds for the inland parts of the bay with that warm-up over next week. i mean you're back to mid-80s by the time we get to thursday and friday if you are inland. when we look at the numbers for the bay, those temperatures also warm up. you don't get as warm

as the inland microclimates, but we do back to the low and mid-70s and here's your holiday weekend, morning clouds, for the most part, afternoon sun, mid- to upper 60s. >> darren, thank you. one of the most stressful decisions for any teen is deciding what college they will attend. meet the student from oakland who has more than a few choices. >> so far i have been accepted into 122 schools and some schools are not out yet. a live look from santa clara where the city just announced a deal with the 9ers to settle a longstanding dispute over levi's stadium, why the

it's college emissions season and many high school seniors have gotten their acceptance letters, some of them pretty excited.

>> such an exciting and stressful time. about 75 students at oakland unity high school celebrating their academic victories. some are now headed for the uc system, others for state schools, community colleges. for many getting here has been overcoming considerable adversity. >> i had to overcome the passing of my brother during my freshman year. it was very hard and the school reached out. they reached out and had meetings, talk to counselors, helped me get through it. >> oakland unity high, a college prep school, says 80% of its students are headed to four-year universities. >> we love celebrating their success stories. let's take you to oakland where a student applied to more than 120 different universities. how do you even do that? >> you know what followed? hundreds of acceptance letters. len ramirez reports.

>> reporter: it takes a large suitcase filled to the brim to contain all of the letters of acceptance oakland's helms has received from colleges all over the country. >> these are either acceptance letters, financial aid packets. sometimes there's boxes like these that there's t-shirts or different accessories that schools send out. >> reporter: beginning last fall, helms sent out 150 applications to colleges. before long he started hearing back and it became an avalanche of acceptance, big universities, small colleges near and far, almost all he applied to, want him. >> so far i have been accepted into 122 schools and some schools are not out yet. >> reporter: helms' father

chris said new letters of acceptance are coming to the mailbox almost every day. >> every day has been a day of surprise and delight. >> reporter: and it's not just acceptance letters. scholarship offers and potential grants have also come in. >> sometimes you get something like this and say yes. >> reporter: helms was born in uganda and lived there until just before high school. he has a 3.94 gpa and one true passion, singing. helms is a member of the pacific boy choir academy in oakland and wants to pursue music as a career. his goal is to one day be a pop music star, but that created some internal pressure and a little bit of conflict at home. >> where we're from definitely those career driven paths are

praised, become a doctor, become an engineer, become something that's stable and something that can offer you money, right? >> reporter: it wasn't easy convincing his parents. chris is an engineer turned business entrepreneur who admits he wanted that for helms, too. >> and i realized that the things i'm projecting onto him, to be an engineer or be an astronaut or be a doctor, is not the thing that he wants to do and get into this space of, you know, love the child you have versus the child you wish you had. >> reporter: to prove he was serious about his musical career, helms did research. every university he applied to has a strong music program and a notable faculty. out of the 122 that accepted him, helms chose the one school just down the street. >> it says congratulations and welcome to the university of california berkeley. we're pleased to offer you admission

to the college of science with the full semester of 2024. >> reporter: helms will be following chris' footsteps because cal is chris' alma mater, but helms will be majoring in music. >> ultimately i think if someone is going to take anything out from this, i would say that find what makes you come alive and go do that because i think the reward from that is priceless. >> reporter: and at 18 years old helms' song has only just begun. >> good for him. >> just an incredible talent. >> i want to see him, what he was doing in the fall, though, filling out all those applications. how many essays did you have to write? how long did it take? we were saying some of these schools allow you to do one application so you can apply to different schools, but still. >> almost 200 of them? amazing. >> he deserves all the success. up next here at 5:00, the california teachers association

has been a close ally of governor newsom throughout the years. so why is the group running new tv ads calling him out directly? >> tell lawmakers and governor newsom to pass a state budget that protects public schools. one of the south bay's biggest medical facilities is announcing a major cutback in services, why activists and local leaders say it amounts to discrimination. i said that's my dog. oh, my god. so i just hopped in the car and i drove an hour south. >> how a northern california wildfire victim found his long lost dog after more than

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