bankman-fried is sentenced. the amount of time the founder of ftx will spend behind bars after being found guilty of crypto fraud. plus opening day is here and it may be the final one for the a's in oakland. the action some fans are taking to protest the team's planned move to vegas.

♪♪ ♪♪ good morning, and thanks for joining us for our midday newscast. i'm marcus washington. our top story, sam bankman-fried sentenced to 25 years in prison. this is for his role in defrauding users of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange ftx, that judge delivering the sentence that bankman-fried committed obstruction of justice and witness tampering while mounting his defense. the prosecution sought 50 years while his legal team argued for no more than six and a half years. he was convicted on several criminal counts back in november. well, here we are, opening day and there's really nothing quite like it, right? but if it's the last opening day ever for your beloved team in its current city, well, that's what a's fans are hearing as the season opens, nbc bay area's bob

redell say one group of fans, they hope that fans never step foot back in the stadium. >> two fan group, the last dive bar and the oakland 68, they're asking fans to stay inside the parking lot during tonight's a's home opener in the coliseum. they don't want fans in the ballpark, instead they want to participate in a block party protest in the parking lot against the a's move to las vegas. the group has even created a website called the summer of boycot, to, quote, channel our collective frustration into positive action and this is to let billionaire team owner john fisher know that they want the team to stay in oakland and not move to the las vegas strip. >> the fans deserve this team. the fans have built up and created the mystique around the a's and you know, we deserve better. so we're hoping eventually somehow, you know, they'll be able to step in and maybe do a quiet payoff fisher, but

everything to date hasn't proven that to be the case. >> in the past, the a's have opened up the parking lot four to six hours before the home opener. this is to let the long lines of fans in to tail gate, but yesterday the team released a statement that they will not be opening the parking lot tonight until two hours before game time which is right after 5:00 and it is not clear if this is in response to the planned boycott. this could cause serious problems if the line of fans backs into 880. also, if you're coming to the game tonight, keep in mind there's a concert taking place next door on the oakland arena which is on the same site as the coliseum. next tuesday, the tropicana hotel which has been a sin city landmark for a number of years will be shut down, eventually demolished for the a's new billion dollar stadium and the

a's hope to seat in the ball mark in 2028. the team is committed to play through the co coliseum through this season, and the first pitch at 7:07 here in the oakland coliseum. here in oakland, bob redell, nbc bay area news. >> you heard bob talk about it. not only is there a game and there is also a concert. mike inouye is here to help us work our way around the traffic. >> we have the coliseum complex, mark, you know that. here's the arena and a number of artists out there tonight and also the 7:00 game start, but a couple of hours beforehand and at least a couple of hours they opened the parking complex and here's parking on the south side and there's other parking on the north side and it's right outside the nimitz freeway and lots and as folks are taking the money and the admission and they do tend to back up and we have

98th avenue and the offramps where there will be slowing over to the right lane and northbound or southbound coming out of oakland or up in toward the bay bridge. they will have slowing as they tend to back up on the offramps and we'll watch for them starting as early as 4:30 and 5:00 as bob said a couple of hour before the concert and before the game ien they opened the lots. back to you. >> keisha cole, hometown girl. nbc sports california, coverage begins at 6:00 p.m. let's not forget the giants. the giants will be taking on the dres tonight and that is after 1:00 p.m. bay area and some of the additions include former cy young winner blake snell and korean star hoon lee and jorge soler. the front line former a's third baseman matt chapman will

continue with the lineup, as well. a lot of folks headed out to the game today, bring a jacket. >> yeah, but it's been a mixed bag of weather, too, because in some spots they've had very quick passing showers and we've seen them in the south bay and parts of the peninsula. for the evening game things will start to quiet down, but we've been tracking the showers moving through the south bay and some off and on rain once again for san jose and also moving into the east bay hills, but for the most part most of the bay area is just seeing a mix of sun and clouds still a bit unsettled after the rain moved through yesterday and there are still showers to the north of us. so for the game tonight it is expected to be cloudy and temperatures only in the mid-50s and it gets cooler as the night goes on, and if you're going to san diego, and i guess you should already be there by now and all of us watching it on tv, it will be in the mid-60s and sunny, really nice weather in

southern california. we are going to see some low 60s here and it is a fairly cool day, but we're also going to see the return of rain. i'll have a look at that time line and i'll have you look at weekend plans and that's coming up later. marcus? >> kari, thank you. it marks one year since wall street journalist gershkovich was detained in russia. the charges against gershkovich include collecting russian state secret which is is being called fiction by the journal and u.s. officials. while dealing with this setback, evan's family tell our ginger conejero saab that they remain optimistic and holding out hope that evan will come home soon. his sister is also opening up about her correspondence with her brother. >> we try to keep it light in our letters. i've -- i think it helps us both

stay strong and trying to help each other smile as best we can. >> he is among others wrongfully held in russia including paul wieland held since 2013. putin is open to a prisoner swap for gershkovich if an agreement can be reached in washington. you can see much more of this interview with his family tonight on nbc bay area news at 7:00. developing now, the search and recovery effort in baltimore is now a salvage operation. authorities say that the remains of two missing workers were recovered and investigators continued their probe into why that massive cargo ship slammed into the francis scott key bridge. nbc's jay gray has the latest from baltimore. >> a day after recovery teams identified two of the six missing victims of the collapse, divers have been pulled from the water here, the condition and

debris just too dangerous. responders believe the four men still missing are buried under the debris and won't be recovered until the salvage effort is under way and that can't really begin until the ntsb investigators finish their physical work on the scene. yesterday the ntsb team boarded the wrecked ship for the first time. >> we were able to take a look at pier protection and we looked at some of the damage to the containers and certainly the bridge structure. now we have a recorders group which is responsible for locating, retrieving and downloading any recorder or recorded information that may relate to the accident. we do have the voyage data recorder. >> ntsb teams are analyzing that data. now they will continue to interview the 21 crew members onboard that ship. they say the entire investigation could take up to

two years, but they do hope to have some preliminary results within the next few weeks. that's the latest from here in baltimore. i'm jay gray, back to you now. >> california lawmakers are taking steps to push for safety reforms when it comes to school zones. data shows traffic accidents are the number one cause of death. this is for children here in the state. the newly proposed safety measure will look to protect kids walking and biking to school. the proposal includes lowering speed limits in the school zones to 20 miles per hour or less during certain hours. it comes after a car hit and killed 8-year-old jacob villanueva in 2022. this is while he was walking to school in campbell. state s semibleeman mark berman. >> the hours are 7:00 a.m. and it does include flexibility for

communities to alter those hours if those hours don't make sense that area, but those are the hours that have the greatest possibility for risks. >> we've already had some cities reach out to us to say, hey, we want it earlier. we want to start at 6:00 a.m. because some students get dropped off early in school and that's why we have the flexibility. >> the elementary school is where state assemblyman berman announced the proposal. that is where villanueva attended just blocks from where he was killed. >> a shift is happening at district schools and application numbers are on the rise. this is the first time we've seen that in recent years, but it will be enough to change the course of the challenge district. that is a question a lot of people are asking as nbc bay area's ginger conejero saab reports the district said it had more schools than needed.

>> 14,000 applications in 2024, that number is up for the first time in recent years which means the interest is up and the potential to grow the student body is there, and it can be a bright spot for the district that has become difficult for those that lie ahead, there are more schools than student which is means closing or consolidating schools is not just a possible id, but poised to happen at this point. how many and which schools has yet to be determined, but i am told it will take time before those decisions are made. what we know, applications to sfusd schools went up this last season specifically in transitional kindergarten which coincides with the safe requirement changing. the potential for growing the student body is there. >> we see an increase of 300 applications for tk every year or 300 tk students each year, and so what that means is that every year we need to make 300

more seats and so we're opening more and more schools every year. >> there are currently over 130 schools within sfusd and almost 50,000 students. you can see the breakdown on the screens and that is for the 2023-2024 school year and enrollment numbers have been down in recent years. the director of enrollment saw big changes at the start of the pandemic and are also impacted by the low number of san francisco families with young children and the city's declining birthrate. enrollment in private schools also makes an impact. the district is facing major challenges including facing an over $400 million deficit, replacing an inefficient payroll system and it's also reforming school placement of lottery to zoning. families are in the middle of finding out which schools they are placed in and they will have until april 5th to make that decision in the main round, as far as consolidating and closing schools are concerned the

superintendent does say they are engaging the community to help make those difficult decisions ahead. in san francisco, ginger conejero saab, nbc bay area news. >> thank you, ginger. a mystery driver shocks officers in oroville. we'll tell you just how old this driver is and why he said he had to take his mom's car. plus spring snow. a warning if you're thinking of heading to lake tahoe for the easter weekend. keep it right here. you're watching nbc bay area news at midday.

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asked the little boy where he was going he said he was just trying to get to school. the boy's mother said she was in the bathroom when he took her keys and he was told to apologize to officers and no charges are being filed. a charter high school in the south bay is closing its doors for good. more than 200 students will have to transfer when the campus closes this summer. the school board at dcp allen roth high school in east san jose voted on the closure earlier this month since the pandemic in 2020 enrollment at that school has decreased by 30%. school executives say that they will face a nearly $2 million deficit. this is because of low enrollment and students are starting to petition to keep the school open. turning to money matters, finance is measured in the same way football games are in quarters and for wall street today is the last quarter or last day of the first quarter.

scott mcgrew says that the scoreboard looks pretty good. >> good morning. today is the last trading day of the first quarter. there's no trading tomorrow because of good friday, and what a quarter it has been. the stock market had its best quarter in year and the s&p 500 up 10% in the last three months of the year. the dow jones market data shows the 500 companies in the s&p have gained $9 trillion so far this year. employment still under 4%, gdp jumped at 3.4% in the last quarter measured and the consumer has noticed, the university of michigan just released its consumer sentiment data that measures how families feel about their finances and how likely they are to make big purchases and they feel good. consumer sentiment is a leading indicator. it means it looks forward into what's going to happen and not backwards the way unemployment does. so one more positive indicator for the economy.

now there are still challenges ahead, inflation is down, but stubborn especially with gas prices rising. back to you. >> all right. thanks so much, scott. >> well, this morning chain controls are in effect along i-80 and highway 50. this is after heavy snow dose there in the sierra. the road conditions are quickly changing for drivers and this is the scene along i-80. snow covered the roads there and low visibility forcing many people behind the wheel to just slow it down. those without chain controls were forced to install them. let's turn now to meteorologist kari hall. >> it was a light snow and it made things slick enough to where they needed chain controls and we have a bigger storm coming in and that will really change thins and conditions over the weekend, but now we do have a break in the activity. as we take a live look outside in san francisco and we talk about what to expect throughout the weekend, we are going see some spotty showers still

lingering today, but then tomorrow the rain picks up and we'll have gusty winds and even on sunday we'll have a chance of showers with most of it coming on saturday. so here's the wave of rain that we are seeing right now, and once again mainly pushing through the south bay and picking up around morgan hill and maybe headed toward gilroy in the next few minutes and you can see the motion of that activity as the wave of rain begin to develop by mid-morning and now as we approach the lunch hour we're still seeing some showers and light rain possible across parts of the north bay with most of the rain farther to the north, but if you are wondering how much rain did you get yesterday with the system that moves through. most of us about a tenth to a quarter inch of rainfall and it was higher for bin lohman and some of the highest rainfall totals in mt. hamm 1.75, and we

have it into the north bay. our temperatures remaining on the cool side and eventually we will have a warm-up. it's just over the easter weekend we'll have off and on rain and the temperatures will be in the low 60s. it will be saturday and it will turn quite windy with a chance of thunderstorms and the sierra, we talked about this, could have two feet of snow and lingering showers on easter sunday. overall, the rain will be off and on and in total we could see rainfall totals of about an inch and a half to possibly two inches of rainfall across the region. our seven-day forecast shows unfortunately we will have a bit of a soggy and cool easter weekend, but then look at next week. a lot of kids on spring break. it will be sunny and temperatures in the low 70s. it looks really nice there, marcus. >> it does. >> the international new york auto show kicks off tomorrow and this week's deadly bridge collapse in baltimore is looming

largely over this year's event as it impacts the supply chain there. i spoke with national transportation expert mike cadell and he says that automakers are quickly looking to adjust just to keep vehicle oscar lots. >> we heard from ford motor company and general motors this week that they'll be doing detailed re-routing around that port to get vehicles in and out. so as of right now we are hoping to not see any delays in vehicles hitting dealership lots. the secondary part of that is they'll move it to a place like savannah or off the coast of california. post wyneme to bring vehicles on to the mainland. we're hoping you will not see a big change in this. >> he also says automakers are working to keep up with the demand for electric vehicles with many of its new models on display at this year's show.

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maybe a half step backward for warriors draymond green who let his emotions get the best of him and this is an important game in orlando. every game matter because the dubs are trying to get that spot in the playoffs. four minutes into the game right there, well, yeah. draymond got into it with the refs who clearly lost his patience there. they tossed him out after two quick technical foul. nothing physical, but just

language and the warriors powered on without him controlling the game and they beat the magic 101 to 93 still holding on to the lead. the bay area's women's soccer team just two days out from the first-ever home game and bay fc hosting at paypal park. in less than 90 minutes, that's really cool. san jose mayor matt mayhan is expected to receive a letterman jacket ahead of the stadium. the team is 1-1 on the road this season. since its major league baseball opening day, how about we talk a story that is sure to hit a fever pitch with anyone just hoping to strike it rich. nd of like those contracts with baseball players ando one won last night's powerball jackpot and it's an estimated $935 million. not too bad nearly $450 million.

there have now been 37 consecutive drawings without anyone hitting the top prize. if you're planning on playing, good luck to you. >> you'll need it. >> we are going to have some off and on rain in the forecast, a bit more of a break today and the heavier rainfall and even some thunderstorms possible this weekend. i'll be tracking that tomorrow morning. >> chances of rain much greater than winning the lottery. >> absolutely. >> pack your umbrella. >> pack your umbrella. thanks for joining

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