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>> right now at 4:30, remembering a bay area icon, the lgbtq community across the bay area coming together to pay tribute to a drag trailblazer. the lasting legacy she leaves behind. >> plus, his day in court is here. former president donald trump set to face a new york state judge in a matter of hours. we're going to break down the legal proceedings expected to play out this morning. this is "today in the bay." >> good morning to you on this tuesday. i'm marcus washington. >> i'm laura garcia. let's start with a look at the forecast. nicer today. not as cold? >> not as cold and no chances of any of the spotty showers or even snow showers on the hills. so we're going to see more sunshine as we go into the afternoon. we are going to start out with some clouds as we take a live look outside in san jose, and our temperature at 37 degrees right now in dublin, it is a cold start, upper 30s in the

north bay, and it's 43 in san jose. just above freezing in los gatos right now. here is a look at our high temperatures for this afternoon, reaching into the upper 50s, so it's basically the same as yesterday, but i think without the high winds it will be more comfortable. eventually it's going to feel like spring. mike, you were looking at some flares. >> yeah, the callout at about 3:45 this morning, a disabled vehicle blocking the far right lane. the third lane is at the high-rise with flares escorting folks to the side. chp has been notified. the bridge crew is there. i don't think they can remove the vehicle until they get the right size tow truck. it's not a major impact, but it is in your commute direction on the san mateo bridge on the high-rise. it's been there for 45 minutes so far. the rest of the bay moves smoothly, but there is a crash reportedly blocking all lanes,

but it was there for a few minutes. it looks like progress has been made, they're clearing chp vehicles and i haven't seen slowing for the last 20 minutes. i'll bring you an update for this part of milpitas into san jose. back to you. >> thanks, mike. in just a matter of hours, former president donald trump is expected to surrender to authorities who will place him under arrest and process him in a lower manhattan court. >> the former president is facing criminal charges in connection with a hush money payment made to former adult storm star stormy daniels. gia vang has more on what we will and will not hear in the courtroom. >> reporter: with that, former president donald trump touched down in new york, was escorted to trump tower where he'll stay where his arraignment in court on tuesday. we've learned new details of the 2:15 p.m. hearing. cell phones and laptops can be

brought into court but not used, still photos are not allowed until the proceedings again. then they can be used in the hallways. a former prosecutor is now with san jose state. >> i think even experienced prosecutors and even i tried so many cases, there's always an element of nervousness as you start the process. >> reporter: mr. trump's arraignment is expected to be preceded by the unsealing of the actual indictment when we learn the seriousness of the charges we faces, stemming from hush money payments made ahead of the 2016 election to two women. he'll be asked to enter a plea, to which his attorneys say he will plead not guilty. >> from there, he will be read his constitutional rights and bail will be set. my expectation is that they will not detain him, he will be released on his own recognizance. >> he will be fingerprinted, though not a dna swab taken. trump has denied any wrongdoing.

trump is taking a late swing on alvin bragg on social media, claiming for him to be indicted, claiming he illegally leaked information to a reporter. while there are protests planned and new york city leaders are asking people to keep the peace. >> control yourselves, this city is our home, not a playground for your misplaced anger. >> the former president is expected to fly back to mar-a-lago after his arraignment. he's scheduled to deliver a public address tuesday night. >> when former president trump enters the manhattan courthouse this morning, he'll become the first former or current president of the united states to face criminal charges. nbc news will have full team coverage during and after the "today" show as he makes his way from trump tower in mid town to the courthouse in lower manhattan. >> the "today" show starts after us here on "today in the bay.."

the search for a bay area woman believed to have been kidnapped in mexico continues. the 29-year-old machine cowas visiting jalisco and the security footage shows several cars pulling up and speeding off with her inside. he adds while they've been working closely with the "today in the bay," there's been no progress. >> i know there's a lot of good investigators and agents that are on our side, on our team, giving it their all to help my sister out. unfortunately, a lot of the responsibility falls into mexican investigators, whom i wish to urge more. >> last october the u.s. state department warned travelers will crime and kidnapping in jalisco. the fbi is now offering a $40,000 reward to help locate monica. people with information are being asked to contact the fbi

or an american embassy or consulate. in san francisco, members of the lgbtq community are in shock over the death of a legendary drag queen. the passing of heklina comes as states nationwide are considering laws that would limit drag performances. "today in the bay's" terry mcsweeney shows us the lasting legacy that heklina leaves behind. >> reporter: this nightclub in san francisco's mission district, a wall-to-wall tribute to drag queen, heklina, steph grygelko. >> heklina was biting and sometimes polarizing, but hilarious and always sold tickets. >> reporter: heklina was found dead in her hotel room in london where she was scheduled to perform. she was known for inspiring others to be themselves. >> she really saw that, you know, like, i really enjoy doing things that would be considered nerdy, and it really helped

foster that and helped me gain some confidence. >> you can look at the community at large and you see so many fellow drag performers and just human beings that are better people now because of this. >> what is happening across the country? >> reporter: just a few blocks from the tribute, a previously scheduled town hall meeting on the hushback against drag performers nationwide. >> i was watching it happen, say, a year or two ago on the news and kind of saying, oh, i don't want to see that and just pushing it aside, until we've seen this just flood of it happening across the country. >> reporter: not just drag rights up for discussions, so were transgender rights. >> transitioning is necessary. it is lifesaving, and so for them, of course, our insurance covers it and for them to attack that and try to take it away. what they're effectively doing

is really killing trans people. >> the audience was encouraged to do more than pay lip service to the communities and they're going to have a chance to do just that. there's a big rally planned for saturday at san francisco city hall. terry mcsweeney, "today in the bay." we are following breaking news just into our newsroom. the bay area is getting a national women's soccer league. a group of investors putting up a record $53 million franchise fee and a total investment of $125 million. that is the largest institutional investment ever made in a professional women's sports franchise. alan waxman, founder of sixth street, leads the group and it also includes former meta executive sheryl sandberg, nba and wnba executive rick wells and brandi chastain and alley wagner. a led at 5:30, wagner will exclusively join kris sanchez live to discuss this major

announcement and what is expected to play out. 4:3 this morning, and more job cuts for apple. next here on "today in the bay," the retail employees expected to be laid off, also the reason behind that move. >> plus, google looking to test a new price guarantee program. the new program aimed at making sure you get the best deal available for your trip. stay with us. you're watching "today in the bay."

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tuesday morning, we have a clear start to the day, as we check out walnut creek, east bay temperatures in the low 40s right now. not as windy as yesterday, but it will be a chilly start and we do keep that sunshine in the forecast and the dry weather. eventually we're going to have some more seasonable temperatures, and we'll talk more about that in the forecast coming up. >> our cameras are much steadier today, like this one looking at the golden gate bridge. i'm watching the lights in this area. we have a crew clearing from the northbound side. the southbound side, we'll see traffic break a little bit. right now traffic is light and smooth. let's check in with silvana. good morning. i'm silvana hanao from cnbc. wall street is set for a flat open today as investors look at the spike in oil prices that boosted stocks yesterday, the dow juching more than 300 points

or 1% to kick off the second quarter, the s&p 500 rising for a fourth straight session but the nasdaq closed in the red. energy stocks led the way after opec+ announced a production cut, pushing prices to their best day in roughly a year. it could fuel inflation, making it harder to curb interest rates. apple is reportedly laying off a small number of people from its retail teams. the jobs are in the division that handles building and upkeep of stores. apple is pitching the move as a way to improve operations, versus a cost-cutting measure. employees have been told they have until the end of the week to apply for other positions within the company and apple is offering up to four months severance. apple has avoided mass layoffs like those at meta, google and

amazon. speaking of google, it's testing a price guarantee for google flights that will pay you back if a fare goes down after you book it. when you use the tool, some flights will have a shield icon with a dollar sign. if you book that particular flight, google will monitor the price every day until departure. if it develops, you'll get the difference back and the price guarantee is only available on flights that depart from the u.s., you can only get $500 back per calendar year and you won't get any in the price is less than $5. >> what time should we pick you up at the airport? you're coming to see us, right? >> of course, of course. we'll work that out and see who wants to volunteer to pick me up. >> we both would. come on. >> all right, thanks, guys. >> thank you. >> he can put the bags in the trunk. 4:45 right now. looming damage from recent storms still lingering across

much of california. ahead on "today in the bay," the slow burning crisis farmers and scientists are monitoring. >> here is jaxon van derbeken with our investigative unit. >> good morning. on our website, you can watch our story about how b.a.r.t.'s morning headaches and the rain are due to a braking issue that could take a decade to resolve. you can watch the story on nbcbayarea.com.

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welcome back. i want to update this crash. i'm happy to tell you the crash southbound 680 around 237 had all lanes blocked, and then it's just cleared. cleared from the roadway and in a couple of seconds should clear from the chp report. there's no activity anymore and no slowing at the scene. we still have a disabled vehicle blocking your right lane traveling west coming across the peninsula at the high-rise for the san mateo bridge. not a lot of slowing but the flares are out. they need a tow truck and chp to arrive. we'll watch that. we have an issue, a little slowing on the berkeley curve but i didn't see a problem there approaching the bay bridge. top of the screen. what we have is continued road work, all week from 5:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m., so we should get ready to clear. that's from a mudslide that happened during the storms. the mudslide caused damage to the roadway and they've got to clean that up. at least they get a chance to do that right now.

>> it's been pretty dry, but also very chilly. and it doesn't yet at all feel like we're in the beginning of april. yesterday we had the winds really kicking up, also some gusty winds moving through antioch. but the wind will still be breezy but just not as gusty as yesterday. so we're making some progress. but we're only going to be in the upper 30s and low 40s for the next few hours, and then as we go into later this morning, it's still going to be chilly, but it will be sunny. so don't forget the sunglasses and the jacket. here is a look at high temperatures, still about 5 to 8 degrees cooler compared to what's normal for this time of year. so it's going to be another chilly day and, once again, mostly clear with sunshine. tomorrow it's starting to feel a little bit better, with some mid-60s for san jose, but mostly low 60s as you move over toward dublin, as well as martinez. 62 in napa. santa rosa reaching 62 degrees.

then a little bit cooler on thursday, with the highs back in the upper 50s once again. so we're still seeing that cold air kind of pour into the bay area, but then by friday we'll see it increase in cloud cover and even a chance of some scattered showers. the north bay will have the highest chance of showers, and still lingering into saturday morning, but the rest of the weekend is dry and then our temperatures start to ramp up. but, unfortunately, the warm weather doesn't last long. there will be another storm system dropping in that's also going to cause our temperatures to dip back down. so take a look at palo alto in the next ten days, cool for today and tomorrow, saturday is going to be mild as the sky gradually clears. we have upper 60s in our sunday and monday forecast, and then once again back down as the next storm system comes in. we're looking at showers every few days as our temperatures reach into the mid to upper 60s and then low 70s for the start

of next week. san francisco is also going to see rain chances increasing going into friday and saturday morning. and now as we take a look at our climate in crisis, we have a slowly unfolding natural disaster in the central valley, about halfway between fresno and bakersfield, just east of i-5 in the town of cocoran. people have worked for a century to make california's basin into a food grower's paradise. but now the landscape looks more like the pacific ocean as more than 30 square miles is now under water, after all of the atmospheric river storms pummeled the area and saturated the soil in the basin. floods have damaged towns and deluged farms, and they have become to refill what was a sprawling lake. floods have pitted property owners against one another and raised tensions over how to manage the flows, which have damaged hundreds of structures,

and more water is on the way. a slow burning crisis will play out as a historic snowpack looms in the mountains above the basin, and as it melts it is likely to put downstream communities through months of torment. the flooding, which follows several years of extreme drought, as we know, is another example of weather whiplash due to the influence of climate change, which can make extremes more intense and more frequent. the reforming tulare lake which was drained for farming a century ago, could remain in the landscape for years, disrupting growers in a region that produces a significant portion of the nation's supply of almonds, pistachios, milk and fruit. this will have a ripple effect on the nation's food supply and leave farmworkers without income for an undetermined amount of time. we will continue to follow the impacts on our website, nbcbayarea.com, on our climate in crisis page. >> thank you very much, kari.

march madness comes to an end and one team rising to the top. next on "today in the bay," the celebration for uconn as they win the national championship title. we'll have highlights from the big game. >> and happening now, religious leaders plan to call for immediate release and closure of all detention centers. this is isis detention centers. this morning they are holding a multi-faith prayer vigil and hunger strike at the agency federal building near the embarcadero. they plan to march to

welcome back. you're watching "today in the bay." well, the cinderella story for san diego state university came to an end last night at the ncaa

tournament championship game. >> hurley and the huskies have their dreams come true. >> yeah, but they made it to the championship game. the madness has ended and uconn takes home the title. the team ran out the clock with the huskies beating the aztecs 76-59. this was san diego's first trip to the final four. oakland native johnson, he scored 14 points last night. sdsu has at least three other bay area players on the team. so there's at least one bay area family celebrating along with i conn, cal caterra plays with the huskies. this is their fifth national title. congratulations to them. the warriors will take on oklahoma city turned in their final game of the home season tonight. andrew wiggins is expected to

return sometime this week. he's been out due to personal matters. his father is said to be sick. "the athletic" reports he'll attend tonight's game but it's not clear if he'll play. after tonight t warriors will go on the road and face the sacramento kings on friday. they'll close out the season against the trailblazers on sunday. 4:57 right now. anticipation is growing this morning as former president donald trump gets ready to face a judge. next here on "today in the bay," we're live in new york to walk

right now at 5:00, indictment day. former president d donald trumps heading to the courtroom. we're live fromm new york with preview of what is to come in the hours ahead during this historic proceeding. also, the warning from the city's mayor. >> plus, help is on the way. president joe biden enacts a federal disaster declaration for storm-battered areas of california. the counties now eligible to receive funding. this is "today in the bay." good tuesday morning to you. thanks for starting your day with us. it's 5:00 right now. i'm laura garcia. >> i'm marcus washington. also ahead for you this morning, we're going to take you inside see's candy factory for an up-close look