right now. breaking at 11 on strike. alameda county court clerks hit the picket lines. the interruption. the one day action is already having. good morning,

and thanks for joining us for our midday newscast. i'm marcus washington and i'm laura garcia. let's get right to that. eaking news in alameda county, striking workers caused major disruptions to courtroom proceedings for the day. nbc bay area's bob redell joining us live from outside the hayward hall of justice in bob redell county, actually closed that courthouse. so what kind of impact are we talking about for those businesses before the court? well, this yeah, marcus, it's definitely a huge disruption for people who have business in alameda county courts this morning. you can see right behind me. these are alameda county superior court clerks who are on a one day strike. and as a result, they have forced the closure of the hayward hall of justice. this is what people have been showing up to this morning, unaware that the court is going to be shut down. you see, courtrooms are closed. there's a sign that talks about the limited operations and what you do if you have business before the court here today, and it's because there's not enough

people in there who can work. the court tells us this strike is impacting civil cases like traffic and family law, not only here, but other locations throughout the county as well. and i'll address the impact on criminal cases in just a moment. this was the scene earlier this morning, actually, right where we're standing. a woman came out of the courthouse in tears. she cursed at the striking courtroom clerks when she realized civil court was closed, she berated them. she wouldn't talk to us to explain her dilemma. other people, including attorneys and their clients, they showed up expecting to appear before a judge to move their case along to do whatever business they had. a one man needed to get some paperwork done for his business. he says today's disruption is going to lead to major delays for him and his livelihood. i got to come back in a couple more weeks. not good for me. what are you going to do? what can i do besides wait and be patient? what's your message to the workers whoho are striking? i mean, do what you

t to do. i feel him, you know. well, i just met with my client outside. he was expecting to come in and hopefully move this case along forward. so now it's probably means another month or maybe two delay. you know, that doesn't sound good. it's tough. i mean, it's certainly prejudices my client more than anything else, but i also have cases in here tomorrow. now, the court tells us that if there's a civil or criminal case that can be delayed or postponed today, it will be. but especially when it comes to criminal cases, if there's a strict deadline mandated by law, then the case will proceed today with the help of managers or workers who aren't representnted by t union that is on strike. the courtroom clerks are participating in this one day strike at courthouses throughout alameda county to try to force the court administration to increase their pay, better train new workers, and increase staffing. the union for the clerks has been negotiating for a new contract since before their last contract ended in december. they say the

court isn't training new workers well, that those new hires end up leaving, which the union says has led to a staffing shortage. nearly 1 in 5 positions are unfilled, according to the union. the court administration says otherwise. a one clerk told us this morning that instead of just working for one judge in a day, some days she finds herself hopping around to a number of different courtrooms. mistakes get made, and when we make mistakes here, it it really affects the public directly. i mean, we're dealing with real people's lives. so mistakes are are costly. back out here live. you can see the striking courtroom workers have been out here since about eight this morning, picketing this morning. in a lengthy statement, the court wrote that the lack of staffing and training has not been the primary focus of contract negotiations. rather, the union's main objective, they say, has been a salary increase and retention stipends. but the court says that their demands for more money are, quote, unsustainable, sustainable. given the court's dire budget

situation caused by the state of california's significant cuts to the funding provided to the court, the court said that there would be layoffs if those demands were met. reporting live here outside the hayward hall of justice, which is shut down right now. bob redell nbc, bay area news. bob, thank you. we're also following some breaking news out of arizona this midday. this is where first responders are on the scene of a deadly plane collision. it happened at the marana regional airport in marana. this is a live look at that scene there. that's about 21 miles northwest of tucson. the collision happened between two planes, and at least two people are reported dead. now, we know that these were a smaller, fixed wing, single engine aircraft involved in the collision. federal aviation administration and the national transportation safety board are both expected to respond. if you drive in san francisco, this is for you. the city will soon be watching and citing your speed with the help of new speed

cameras. nbc bay area's ginger conejero saab joins us live in the city this morning. and ginger, those cameras are not yet online, but they do have some already installed. right? that is correct, laura. one of those cameras is installed. it's behind us there. you can see that on the corner of geary and seventh avenue. it's been pretty busy this morning. we've seen a number of cars go over the speed limit, which is at 25mph in this neighborhood. but soon that may change dozens of times this morning. this installed speed camera on geary and seventh avenue caught cars going above the 25 mile per hour speed limit. this is one of 33 cameras installed across the city's 11 districts, many on streets prone to high speeds. others near schools and residential neighborhoods, and even some on streets with a documented history of sideshows. any car going over the speed limit is risking our lives. jody medeiros

is the executive director for walk s.f, an organization that's been pushing for the implementation of these speed cameras for six years. there are stories of children being walked to school and, you know, never coming home, or mom walking home from work trying to cross the street and just, you know, getting hit and lives changed forever. me and my siblings look at my mom every day and it's her physically, but she's nowhere near who our mom is. jenny yu knows all too well the impact of traffic violence. 14 years ago, her mother was struck by a speeding suv in the city's richmond district. she suffered major traumatic brain injury and is suicidal and depressed. my mom doesn't really know her condition. she knows that she's was impacted by some kind of car until she gets ptsd when she's on the street. today feels like a victory for jenny and walk s.f. because it's one step closer to what they believe will

be safer streets in san francisco. speed cameras go online in march. notices for violators will go out in the first two months. after 60 days, fines kick in. and those fines, laura, are considered civil violations, so they will notng impact someone's driver's license. but a lot of eyes will be on how this rolls out in san francisco, seeing as how the city is the first of six cities in this pilot program. this pilot program will last five years in san francisco, ginger conejero saab nbc, bay area news. boy, you hear those personal stories of people being affected by this. you understand why they had to put it in. thank you. ginger. we're following new developments. this moss landing battery facility has reignited. this is a live look right now from nbc bay area. sky ranger. now vistra energy power plant says those flames were seen coming from the previously

burned section of the building. around 9 p.m, the county of monterey warning people in that area to close their windows and doors. the facility says that they are monitorinair quality, and as of now, no hazardous air conditions have been detected. crews will be on site 24/7 to monitor the flames and air quality. 70% of that facility was destroyed in the fire last month. there's no word on how this new fire started. in the north bay, two school districts will vote on school funding plans, which could mean closures and mergers. santa rosa city school district needs to close a $20 million budget gap. in vallejo, the budget gap could be $13 million by next year. here's nbc bay area's kris sanchez with more on what's on the table in vallejo and santa rosa. districts across california are dealing with the same issues declining enrollment and smaller budgets. and in santa rosa and vallejo, they're trying to optimize what they expect will be more lean years ahead. we'll start in vallejo, where tonight, trustees will vote on three

options one closing mare island health and fitness academy and moving vallejo charter into that space. the second option is to reconfigure loma vista environmental science academy and moving students in sixth through eighth grade to solano weidman and turning loma vista into a k through fifth grade school. the third option closes loma vista altogether, except for the farm. the superintendent says that there will be more closures for the 2627 school year as well, with 19 schools for a population of about 9000 students. we really spread our resources thin by consolidating schools, bringing schools closer, we're able to focus our resources on a smaller footprint and really provide additional resources to our students. the board moved the meeting to mare island academy to accommodate a large crowd they expect that is on rickover street in vallejo and starts at six this evening. you can also catch it on the

district's youtube page, and you can see how many people a similar meeting drew in santa rosa. trustees there have been working for months on a plan they will vote on tonight, which they call a331, because it will come in three phases in year on, brook hill and albert elementary schools close along with hilliard and santa rosa middle schools, piner and santa rosa high schools become campuses for seventh through 12th graders, and cesar chavez and santa rosa french american charter schools move into those empty campus buildings. in year two, steele lane elementary and elsie allen high school closed in year three. rincon valley middle school is absorbed by maria carrillo high school, now santa rosa trustees will hold the meeting at santa rosa city hall tonight, which can accommodate up to 500 people. it starts at 6:00 this evening and again that one also available on youtube now in both santa rosa and vallejo. get there early if you want to see it, because both

meetings are expected to be well attended. and by the way, the vote that happens tonight affects changes fall. thanks, chris. let's take a live look for you right now across the bay area. you can see not too bad in some spots. some raindrops there in san francisco. meteorologist kari hall has been monitoring what we can expect. you were telling us about this rain thi morning. yeah, and we are seeing it right over san bruno mountain, where we have storm ranger, our mobile doppler radar parked right now, scanning the sky for this light rain that's moving through. and it is moving just south of san francisco for now, and also extending down the peninsula into the east bay, where we are getting rain just heavy enough to turn on the windshield wipers and wet the roads. and as you're out and about going out for lunch, it's going to be a little soggy in some of these areas. as this continues to move over toward the east bay as well. we are seeing some very scattered and light rain passing by the bay area with this system that is quickly making its way from north to south. i think by 2 to

3:00 we're seeing a lot of that rain wrapping up, and it's going to be a mild day as we get some sunshine returning this afternoon. we'll talk about warmer temperatures in our microclimate forecast coming up. thanks, kari. crews at the scene of that delta crash landing in toronto are recovering. key pieces in that investigation just ahead on nbc bay area. the evidence now in focus and trying to figure out what went wrong. plus, a woman at the center of a shocking ivf mixup learns months into life as a new mom that she gave birth to another couple's child. she'll share her story in her own words.

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fuselage remains. remains on the runway there. this all while investigators continue their work at the scene. nbc's stephanie gosk has the latest from toronto. the wreckage of delta flight 4819 is still on the runway here, still flipped over. a reminder of how 80 people remarkably survived that crash. on monday, investigators are looking at it still on the tarmac there. they are also analyzing the runway itself. they tell us that they've removed the black boxes and sent them to a lab for analysis. one of the key issues that investigators are going to be looking at is why the wing ripped off the plane, which is what sent it tumbling and left people hanging upside down in their seats. one of the key pieces of evidence will be that video that was taken from the cockpit of a plane that shows the landing up close, and the remarkable fireball, as well as the flipping of the plane. when you see those images, it's just

hard to imagine that everyone survived. but delta airlines told us that there are 21 people who were injured. 19 of those people have been released from the hospital. back to you. doge says it's saved billions of dollars of taxpayer money, but scott mcgrew says the receipts posted online don't always add . yeah. good morning. here is a good example. the website the upshot took a look at one of doge's claims, discovered the claim that it had saved $8 billion on one government contract, which, by the way, would account for half of all doge's claimed savings so far was wrong. as you can see, it was 8 million. the trump cuts have led to layoffs of earthquake experts and the department of interior cuts to experts in both bird flu and cuts to experts in energy who manage our nuclear weapons. the government is trying to hire those groups back. meantime, the

other government agencies aren't getting their employees back. the kennedy presidential library had to close for a short time. when the person who takes the tickets was fired as part of musk's budget cuts, it's back open. deep concerns this weekend about the cuts at the faa. the union there says they were trying to hire more people, not lay them off. transportation secretary duffy says none of the air traffic controllers were laid off. park rangers have gone on social media asking why they've been called a waste of money. you didn't hate me when i jumped into a river to save your child, says ranger shanna mcdonald, who served at the indiana dunes. or when i pulled out a junior ranger sticker. elon musk is in charge of making those cuts to federal spending, while the same time his companies bring in billions from federal spending. musk and trump say there's no conflict of interest there. but if one came up, they told sean hannity last night, they'd solve it. i

haven't asked the president for anything ever. and if it comes up, how will you handle it? well, he won't be involved. yeah, i'll. i'll recuse myself if it is. if there's a conflict, he will be involved. i mean, i wodn't want that and he won't want it. now, as several people have pointed out, and is fairly obvious, if the person in charge of deciding that you have a conflict of interest is you, then that itself is a conflict of interest back to you. a georgia woman is talking about her nightmare ivf mixup that led to her delivering another couple's child she believed was her own. 38 year old christina murray believed she was impregnated with an embryo from one of her own eggs. but when the baby was delivered with much darker skin than she expected, she did a dna test to determine the baby was not at all biologically related. when the baby's biological parents sued murray for custody, she gave him

up five months later. now she's suing the fertility clinic, claiming she unknowingly and unwillingly carried a child through pregnancy. he calls the entire ordeal a traumatic experience. i walked out of the building with an empty stroller and they left with my son. and what was it like going home alone? probably the hardest thing i've ever done. in a statement, the clinic says it deeply regrets the distress caused by an unprecedented error. it also called the mistake an isolated incident. in the meantime, murray is trying ivf again with a different clinic in her journey to become a mother. wow. tough. all right. we're back here at home. we're looking at the forecast. there. we see san francisco, san jose here looking nice. san francisco rain. yes. so the rain hasn't yet made it to san jose. and we'll see if it actually does. we are seeing this storm system that's moving through the bay area, affecting the north bay earlier this morning, with a few

hundredths of an inch of rainfall now moving through san francisco. and it continues to weaken. so that's what we're watching for as this rain still affecting people heading out and about, approaching the lunch hour. and we are seeing the showers on storm ranger and once again, now moving down the peninsula, approaching the south bay and moving over toward the east bay as well. that's where we may see some of the rain affecting people's mid afternoon. but later on this evening things are already clearing out and this is the only chance of rain we have in the forecast for quite a while. so here we are. temperatures headed for the low 60s today. we should see a little bit of sunshine before sunset this evening, and it will be 64 in san jose, while novato will hit a high of 60 degrees tomorrow. once we get more sunshine, we're going to bring it up another 5 or 6 degrees in some spots, and it's going to be a little bit warmer. and we continue that warming trend through friday with a lot of upper 60s from the north bay to the east bay, and even low 70s for the south

county on friday. and i think we'll see more 70 for the weekend. if you're checking out the forecast at the bottom of the screen. meanwhile, we're talking about warm air here and very cold temperatures. i mean, bitterly cold moving through much of the midwest and to the south, where these are the high temperatures in some spots, staying in the single digits and dipping below zero during the overnight. and so we're still seeing this very cold air, which will continue there. and we're once again on the other side of that, looking at some above normal temperatures after last week's rain, we wanted to check in on the reservoirs and see how they're doing. well, we are looking much better, mainly for the south bay reservoirs that were running pretty low. and now with nearly 8 or 9in of rainfall at the uvas canyon, we are seeing it almost to normal at this point. and then across northern california, on average, for our four largest reservoirs, they're at about 81% of

capacity. and the sierra snowpack has also had a big boost. today, we're about 96% of the normal amount of sierra snow for today, with the northern sierra doing the best, we don't have anything else coming our way and temperatures warm up, so it will be a nice into the week and weekend with highs in the low 70s inland and san francisco. we'll see temperatures continuing to reach into the mid 60s. back to you. all right. thanks so much kari. well happening now apple is releasing a sleeker and more expensive version of its lowest priced iphone. this is all in an attempt to widen the audience for a bundle of ai technology, which the company is really hoping will revive demand for its products. the iphone 16, it will have a ai features as well as more powerful battery and camera. it starts at $600 and will be on sale in stores starting february 28th, right before my birthday. well, coming up, a celebration of 50 years of comedy, saturday night live is

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