or you can cool your home without unnecessarily heating the planet. consumer investigator chris komor is empowering us to be climate warriors with a little ac, diy. air conditioners are notoriously hungry for energy. in fact, pg and e estimates they account for

about 40% of our summer electric bills. but if you give your ac a little tlc, it might run a lot more efficiently. the energy department says you can hire a pro to check out the coils and perhaps clean them, but there are some other steps you can take yourself. for starters, check the filter and consider replacing it. the energy department says replacing a dirty, clogged filter with a clean one can lower your air conditioner energy consumption by 5 to 15. check your outdoor unit two. debris can disrupt airflow and cost you money. the energy department also recommends at least two feet of breathing room, so trim back plants and shrubs at least 24in inside your home. check your ductwork and use tape to seal any loose connections, the state contractor board says sealing and insulating ducts can improve the efficiency of a home's heating and cooling system by as much as 20. sealing ducts will require time, elbow grease and possibly squeezing yourself into your home's crawl space. yes, that's me. the work might pay

off in a big way. consider a big home with a big ac. well, sealing everything up and lowering the bill 20% equates to roughly $50 a month every month. those savings are pretty cool. don't forget, you can watch nbc bay area news whenever you want. we are streaming 24/7 on roku and other streaming platforms. we have news, breaking updates, and more of our local content. breaking news right now at 6:00, firefighters battling a massive early morning fire in san francisco. nearby buildings evacuated the latest from crews trying to get that flame under control, not selling. that is the new response from tiktok's parent company. with a us ban now looming, we are live in washington. with the growing chances tiktok could eventually go dark. plus, commuter alert a major interstate closure begins tonight at our mike inouye lays out what you need to know before you head into the weekend. this is today in the. bay. good

morning to you. on this friday, i'm marcus washington and i'm chris sanchez. we have lots of news for you. first, we start with breaking news in san francisco, where firefighters continue to battle a large fire in presidio heights. the flames fully engulfed a four story building near clan lyon. and it started just more than an hour ago. there is lots of scaffolding outside the building, and firefighters tell us that the building was being painted. so far, no word about anyone inside the building, but a fire captain just told us within the last hour that the two buildings next door on either side are evacuated. people are now outside of those buildings. firefighters also managed to keep the flames from spreading to those other buildings. we do know though, there is a lot of smoke coming off of this fire and some folks as far away as the tenderloin say that they are smelling it. ginger conejero saab is almost at the scene. once she is there

and talks with fire personnel, she will bring us an update and you can follow breaking news like this one through our nbc bay area app. you can download it for free to get updates sent straight to your phone, we'll head over to meteorologist kari hall. now for a first check of our weather. good morning kari. good morning. you can also check the forecast on the app. and we're starting out with a lot of clouds as you're heading to work in the north bay. and we have seen some clouds, but no issues with visibility. and some off and on light rain as you're heading to work. and we will see much more sunshine throughout late morning into the afternoon. and it's going to be a day very much like yesterday, where there will only be some peeks of sun today and gusty winds that will begin to pick up as we go into the afternoon. and campbell expected to be 67 degrees and cloudy to start and some comfortable weather for martinez and windy and 62 in burlingame today and micronaut expecting a rain delay for those weekend closures. that's good carry because for 680 where we're looking right now, the weekend

closures were postponed several times by the rain. but this weekend, yes, it's going on right now. southbound 680 is open, but we will look at what section will be closed. i'm here in front of our maps talking about where southbound is. the live shot right here in this area for the full closure tonight at 9 p.m. now, bob redell is going to talk more extensively about that project and what that means for the future of that area. but we're talking about your future. you're going to have to take a reroute starting tomorrow night or tonight and or tomorrow morning. we're looking over here, 84 and over there toward the castro valley. y those are the two avenues. and i'll talk more extensively about that as well. the south bay, the early slowing kind of eased up. now that's good news. pretty standard flow of traffic there. the bay bridge has fully backed up over the last 15 minutes. we'll talk about the closure in the north bay coming up as well. back to you. thank you. mike, it is 605 now. and to other breaking news out of the middle east where israel is now considering a proposed cease fire, a temporary one, in exchange for the freedom of 33 hostages still held by hamas.

that potential plan was put forth by egyptian mediators, who are in the country today to talk about what's on the table. 40 hostages were originally part of the proposed bill that would include people from the humanitarian cattegat three. that includes women, children, the elderly and anyone suffering with severe medical conditions. however hamas indicated it may not have 40 hostages fitting that criteria. so that was narrowed down to 33. us secretary of state antony blinken is in china this morning. he's wrapping up a three day trip after meeting with the country's president, xi jinping. this is new video of blinken's meeting with china's foreign and public secretary. ministers now talks between the two countries have increased in recent months, even as geopolitical differences are growing. a primary goal of blinken's visit is to warn china about its support for russia's war against ukraine. now that conflict began, weeks after moscow and beijing declared a no

limits partnership in 2022. and speaking of china, time is ticking for tiktok's bytedance. this is the china based company behind the video sharing app. now it says it has no intentions of selling. this comes after the us gave the company a nine month countdown to do so. today at the base, bree jackson explained to us this morning what sources are saying about the app's future. bree good morning marcus. so four sources tell reuters that bytedance would rather shut down in the u.s. if legal challenges to the recently passed bill banning the video sharing app fails. now, the report says algorithms tiktok relies on are central to the company's operations, so its sale would be highly unlikely. the company says it plans to sue after president biden signed into law a bill which results in the app's ban in the us. if it does not sell the video sharing platform within a year. now critics argue that the new rules are unconstitutional by

violating the company's first amendment rights. meanwhile proponents of the law say national security concerns could still prevail in a legal challenge. for years, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have expressed concerns that chinese authorities could force bytedance to hand over u.s. user data or influence americans by suppressing or promoting certain content on tiktok. now, it should be noted that the us is not the only country where this app faces restrictions. places like australia, canada and the uk have banned the app in some capacity on certain devices issued by its government. right, marcus? yeah, it's one of those situations a lot of folks are watching because it affects a lot of folks. all right. bree jackson in washington this morning. bree, thank you. we continue to follow that breaking news out of fear in san francisco, which we told you about just moments ago, where firefighters are on the scene of a two alarm fire. this is happening in presidio heights near clay and lyon today in the bay's ginger conejero saab just

arrived at the scene moments ago. ginger, from what you can tell on the ground level. what? what can you see? well, chris, you know, we were told that the smoke was one of the big, factors this morning, we're still seeing a bit of that smoke, but it seems like it has cleared up just a bit. what you're seeing, you can see, about six or so firefighters that we're told that are here on scene, not lying in the way, you can see the building, the two alarm fire, this is the building that we have been talking about all morning, it is a residential building, four story. and you can see the scaffolding that is outside. died, outside that building right now, that is what is believed to have been, the work that was doing that was being done on the on the building, on the residential home. it's supposed to be a paint job. it is a sign of, painting company, but we still do not know the details on that. what we do know is there are

believed to be no injuries from here. we do not know if anybody has been displaced so far, but firefighters are still working to really put out those hot spots, with this fire, you can see the damage that's done. now that the sun is starting to come up, now, we spoke with, the, pio from san francisco fire earlier. he told us that when they arrived on scene, the fire had already engulfed the length of this building, they believe that it may have started and have been going on for a while before , anybody noticed and called it in, let's go ahead. go ahead and hear from. all right. okay. we'll bring you more from the scene here as we go on through our newscast newscast. but for now. all right. thank you, ginger. we'll continue to follow that story throughout the morning. all right. right now at six new for you san francisco police ramping up traffic enforcement. this is at nine problem intersections. i want to

show you a map there of what we're talking about. so take a look at this. now all are considered more at risk of high speed crashes. police are facing renewed pressure to crack down on those speeders with growing concerns about fewer citations. now, this all follows last month's crash that killed a family of four. this is near the west portal muni station. transit leaders last week proposed changes there, including adding transit lanes and protected pedestrian space as well as adding speed barriers. the agency is also asking the public for feedback by sunday. well, some bay area hotels are getting international recognition. forget the michelin stars for this story. we're talking michelin keys next on today in the bay, the local stays getting ranked among the best of the best. plus, we'll have the latest from wall street and a really cool story in space where no one can hear your name. oh i want you to be my coach. i want you to be my coach. two men

vying for the love of bay area's own zendaya. not in real life, but on the big screen here, we're going to hear from the oakland native about her latest film, challengers, heading to theaters this weekend. keep it

as we take a look at our day planner and morgan hill, we're starting out with clouds and temperatures in the mid 50s. we are only headed for the mid 60s,

but we will get more sun and warmer temperatures for the weekend, so we'll check out that weekend forecast coming up and taking a live look. the san mateo bridge. we saw a little bit of droplets on the lens earlier, but things have calmed down in the pavement here. not really wet, not even damp. i don't think. but we'll watch for that. which is looking at a build up out of the east bay and two closures actually, that i'm tracking coming up. well good morning. very happy friday to you. markets were down thursday a lot in the middle of the day. but they recovered a bit by the end. worries that growth is slowing along with yet new inflation data showing inflation is stubborn and we likely won't see an interest rate break any time soon. shares in meta fell 10% really hard after that company's earnings report. walmart closing one of its stores in fremont. it had two. the company says the store was an underperformer. and yeah, there was a store just down the street. rubrik in palo alto picked yesterday to debut on the market. one of the roughest days

on wall street. we've seen in quite some time, but they did just fine. shares were up 15% on the first day. a former tesla executive tells the sec he's going to sell $180 million worth of tesla stock. drew baglino quit as senior vice president there on the left earlier this month. he says he's exercising stock options. and just into our newsroom, the u.s. and china have agreed to talks over artificial intelligence. this comes as us secretary of state antony blinken meets with chinese officials, including president xi. southwest airlines warns it's running out of planes because of the boeing shutdown. southwest flies boeing 737 and nothing else. it will discontinue flights to houston, syracuse, bellingham, washington and cozumel, the company said in its meeting with reporters and analysts. it's reconsidering its cattle call boarding system, maybe assigning seats now. it said that before, and then marcus and chris, i swear there

is not a friend i know who is not heard me tell this because i'm so excited. it's a problem in space. i never thought about it before. when astronomers find something new, like a crater, they get to name it. but the rules set down by the international astronomical union say they have to. generally speaking, name it after a famous scientist or artist, and that person has to have been dead for a certain number of years. now, when you think dead scientists from years ago, that's a man. which is why 95% of the features on the moon are named after men. now here's a young astronomer trying to change that. i mean, because, men kind of came there as a first come, first served, it does mean that we have this de facto male occupation of space, but space science is evolving at such an incredible rate that new discoveries are constantly being made. now, that's astronomer annie lennox talking to me from scotland, leading the change to get things named after women. she herself

discovered new craters on mercury, and she struggled to get the iau to accept any of the women's names that she wanted to use. but they did finally relent . i have had some craters names, yes, so that first one that prompted this whole project, i ended up calling the nairn crater after a scottish, poet and singer called lady catalina nairn, who was a contemporary, actually, of robert burns. now she's a really interesting woman in her lifetime, it wasn't, considered proper for a lady to be a poet. so many of her poems were wrongly attributed to robert burns. and it wasn't really until after her death that she got proper recognition, recognitions, the incredible irony that she twice faced so much sexism. so this is the nereid crater. it's on mercury that that lennox discovered. i will talk to astronomer annie lennox on our program sunday morning on press here. it's she has gone and she is trying to

catalog every name in space, trying to figure out who they were named after. so she gets an accurate. but she already knows moon and mars 95% men. oh wow. isn't that incredible? her new song, here comes the name again. yes exactly. yes. i was like, speaking of names. annie lennox. all right. thanks, scott. all right. 618 for you right now and new at six. the mission guide is branching out when it comes to the standard of menu categories, along with the world's best restaurants. it is now including hotels. the grading method is the same. top destinations can receive 1 to 3 key instead of stars, and the three bay area hotels received the three key status they include singlethread in. this is in healdsburg, meadowood, saint helena and canyon range in woodside. all were recently honored with an award ceremony in new york city. good luck getting a reservation now, trending this morning, one restaurant in carmel by the sea generating a lot of buzz right now because this is where music

megastar taylor swift was apparently seen enjoying some downtime with her boyfriend and travis kelce yesterday. it sounds like another celebrity power couple is with them. actor bradley cooper and model gigi hadid. la bicyclette is an upscale european style bistro and according to those who follow this kind of thing, the couples also spent time hanging out together on a nearby beach. i mean, good choice because the beach in carmel is beautiful, oakland native zendaya is. zendaya is acing the moment with her latest movie. yeah, it's called challengers. it's going to hit theaters today, and it really has been creating a lot of buzz and some positive reviews, too. she. duncan. she's in another league. you were incredible today. come on. this comes after she appeared yesterday on the kelly clarkson show. and she came clean with her tennis skills or maybe lack thereof. it's movie magic. she says that when she went to tennis school for weeks leading up to the filming, she

approached the sport like dance choreography. okay, so you see, this is my amazing tennis double , who i am next to. and as you can see, she's working with a ball and i am next to her without a ball. all right. so her well-known tennis coach, brad gilbert, did some intense training with zendaya. but you know what? her doubles who happens to be named cara? i don't know if it's probably kari hall. kind of like kari hall. yeah. is a former university of michigan tennis player. and yeah, he did say so. i guess it is kari hall cute. not me though. no, you don't play tennis. i have a double, you know, because you were off a few weeks ago, so i'm just like your doubles cute son, right? right. so we may be heading to the tennis courts this weekend. love it. it's going to be nice. i would like more sunshine. it's been pretty cloudy and cool recently and we're going to see the clouds linger for us for

today and maybe the next few hours. we've seen some light showers here and there already starting to see a lot of that clearing out. let's get a look at the golden gate bridge where we can see the clouds peeling back. the roads are still a bit damp after some early morning showers, and then our temperatures today are cooler than what we typically see for the last weekend in april. we're only up to 66 today in san jose and los gatos, 64 in cupertino and 65 in gilroy. looking at the east bay will be in the mid 60s again here, upper 60s for antioch and concord and oakland today, 64 degrees only 59 in half moon bay. and it will still be very windy, while san mateo will see a high of 6462. in the mission district and our north bay temperatures anywhere from 62 in mill valley, up to 68 in santa rosa. so we are going to have a pretty overall cool day with some gusty winds and a mostly cloudy sky. take a look at our hour by hour wind gusts in fremont. here we are at 1:00

in the afternoon. those winds are at 31mph and could be even stronger for san francisco and some of our coastal areas as well as the hills. but eventually the wind starts to calm down. tonight and our models still showing that we may see those clouds dropping some light rain at any point today. parts of the east bay could see some of the higher amounts of rainfall, with some of our models showing up to a 10th of an inch of rain. unfortunately, this is not enough to really help us from turning on the sprinklers or watering the lawns and our gardens, where some areas may not see much rain at all. so here's a look at a drier 7-day forecast. after today, with our temperatures warming up into the mid to upper 70s and our temperatures peak on tuesday up to about 79 degrees, while san francisco will continue to see temperatures in the 60s here. and mike, you saw a few drops on that fremont camera. we had carrie. but as you talk about the wind kind of coming through, look at the flags flapping here so quickly dried

off because it was very few drops here in fremont. now we're looking at the road weather index. and i do see a little spots here and there through the tri-valley. so other areas of fremont might have damp pavement, but not a problem. 680 that will be fine for the closure. continuing again tonight starting at 9 p.m. through the weekend. and also highway 37. we'll talk about that closure coming up back to you. thanks, mike. 623 this morning, one night down, chris, two more to go. yes. ahead for you this morning. we're going to give you the highlights from day one of the nfl draft, including that new wide receiver heading hereo the bay t

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go 40 niners select. ricky pearsall. ricky pearsall comes from florida. the niners took him in the 31st round. overall, we know we should add a new dimension. he should, to the team's uncertain receiving corps. as you know, niner veteran brandon aiyuk is looking for a new long term deal. and as you also know, deebo samuel has had a history of injuries. pearsall may be also able to help on special teams. so remember when the raiders used to hold training camp in napa last night? you might say they headed home to draft their first round pick, tight end brock bowers, who attended napa high school last night. he watched

the draft at his family home in fairfield. bowers turned into a star at university of georgia. the draft continues tonight with rounds two and three. we've got a lot more ahead for you at 630, including some breaking news crews there trying to gain control of this fire at a four story building in san francisco. i want you to look at those flames from earlier this morning. we're going to take you there.

contain this massive early morning fire in san francisco. we are live on the scene with the new details and possible clues about what might have sparked that fire. plus, a weekend traffic alert. a big stretch of interstate 680 will be closed in the east bay. we have team coverage on those workarounds to keep in mind. this is today in the bay. it's friday morning and thanks for starting your morning with us. i'm marcus washington and i'm chris sanchez. i'm in for laura garcia. we start with that breaking news in san francisco where we now know that crews have made progress on that two alarm fire. it's happening at a four story building near clay and lyon today in the bay. ginger conejero saab is there at the scene. ginger, you're getting some new updates from the captain that we spoke with earlier this morning. that's right. chris. captain justin shaw of san francisco fire just told us that the bulk of that fire, that residential building

that's been on fire all morning long, that is, for the most part, contained the bulk of that. they are still working on hot spots and the voids of the building to make sure that those don't turn into something that's more of more concern. but the first calls for this fire came in before 430. justin. justin shaw tells us that, you know, crews were on scene in less than four minutes, but already they were presented with a unique set of challenges, as firefighters are for pretty much every day that they're on work. captain shaw is here to talk to us about more of those unique challenges that had to do with the weather and the work that is actually being done on the building. captain shaw, talk to us about that. so fire crews first arrived. they initially saw fire on all four floors. of this four story, six unit residential building, they very quickly activated a second alarm, which sends twice as many firefighters to the scene. they knew they were going to have challenges. one of those being the early

morning wind that we had coming over the hill. we're just south of the presidio. smoke was down all the way to the street level. visibility was almost zero at some points. we also had a spitting mist, almost a rain, which makes all of our tools and equipment slippery. but our firefighters were able to quickly get to work and hold this fire to the building of origin, and we see the scaffolding that's wrapped around the building. i know you were telling me earlier that presented a unique challenge to getting the fire to behave the way it usually does when the scaffolding is wrapped, to protect things from falling down to the ground. it also creates different wind events around the fire. initially. one of our other concerns is it prevents our firefighters from being able to enter upper floor windows using our ladders, and complete a search for any occupants at the time. however, our firefighters are very well trained to adapt and we were able to apply water via our ladder pipe operations and knock down the bulk of the fire very quickly. all right, and quickly, captain shaw, we just received word from the owner of the building. there were no

residents. there were. the building was vacant at the time. we have received information that the building was vacant. we also have no reports of injuries and our primary and secondary searches have shown no one in the building. okay. all right. and i know you guys are still at work. you will continue to be. thank you for your work this morning. we'll check in in just a bit, captain shaw also just advising people that if you are in the neighborhood, try to avoid the neighborhood. if you don't need to be in the neighborhood, i guess is what i'm trying to say, because the streets around are still closed. we're just south of the presidio in the presidio heights neighborhood of san francisco. so if you don't need to be here, you avoid the area. the smoke. they're still trying to work on clearing everything so that the smoke is no longer a problem. but chris marcus, as they were saying, that smoke was so heavy this morning that people all the way from the tenderloin they were getting some calls from people all the way in the tenderloin yeah, a lot of smoke. yeah. and good to hear that. no

one was inside that building. that time of the fire to ginger conejero softpaws reporting live. thank you ginger. now be sure to download our free nbc bay area news app. that way you're going to get the updates that we send straight to your phone. our team of course, will continue to follow this story both on air as well as online. so if your weekend plans involve driving in the east bay, be ready for a full closure of the southbound lanes of interstate 680. because they are getting repaved, we have team coverage. mike inouye is tracking the workarounds for us this morning, but we want to start things out with today in the bay's bob redell. he's live for us this morning over in pleasanton. and bob, the good news here is that this is supposed to be the final weekend for those closures of that stretch of roadway, right? correct. marcus and chris, this is the fourth and final closure of southbound 680 behind me here in pleasanton. we're talking about a closure that will take place tonight at 9:00, starting at the 580 interchange all the way south to highway 84, which is a connector into livermore. we've put this map together to help you better visualize the area of road that we are talking

about. we are talking about a nine mile stretch of southbound 680 starting at the dublin interchange, all the way south to highway 84. as i mentioned, the onramps for southbound stoneridge drive, bernal avenue and sunol boulevard will be closed as well. again, the closure, scheduled to start tonight at nine for the entire weekend, reopening at 4 a.m. monday morning and time for the morning commute perhaps will be a little bit earlier, but that is what their their end time is, according to caltrans, in this video, you might be able to see why this part of southbound 680 needs work. there are potholes, parts of the road that are uneven and just overall deteriorated. originally, this was scheduled for a couple of weekends ago, but was delayed because of the rain. caltrans says this repavement is an entire year ahead of schedule. if caltrans did not shut down the road for this weekend, this work would require roughly 40 nighttime closures. we're removing deteriorated pavement, and we're going to replace it

with concrete, which is a durable material that will give us a smooth ride for decades. so that's the good news. we're all familiar with those potholes, i know everybody who drives that stretch is familiar with the condition of the road. so it will definitely be a smooth ride on monday. so again, southbound 680 between 580 and 84 will be shut down starting tonight at 9:00. will be closed through the entire weekend. the idea is to have this open by 4 a.m. monday morning. this does not impact the northbound direction, so northbound 680 will be normal. southbound is the issue caltrans is asking you to avoid southbound 680 during the weekend. reporting live here in pleasanton, bob redell today in the bay. good information. thanks, bob. all right. well, as you know, the saying it gets worse before it gets better, but mike's going to get you around so that this detour only costs you a couple minutes maybe. mike. that's right. and they're saving. they say we're a year ahead of schedule. they are

ahead of schedule for the completion of that. that's great. now spokesperson mara talked about this stretch. it's very popular for the morning commute. we do have a couple of crashes on either side. i'm monitoring that. more slowing coming in toward the dublin interchange, which marks the northernmost portion of the closure. now tonight at nine, as bob talks about, we're going to have a closure starting probably 830. crews will be on scene southbound toward highway 84. you avoid this section all weekend until monday morning after 4 a.m, but they'll likely reopen earlier. for now, we're looking over here. two options. the shorter option will take you to highway 84. that is a popular cut through, but it's also a smaller capacity roadway, so that may have some slowing. but traditionally that's been a better route than folks taking this longer route with more congestion. building out of contra costa county and in toward the castro valley. why? and slowing south 880 from 238 down toward auto mall. that's the area that's going to see a lot more traffic this weekend. the rest of the bay moving very smoothly this friday. but i'll talk about the closure on highway 37. coming up, back to you. thank you. mike. well, happening today, a memorial service for fallen oakland

police officer who died from injuries suffered in the line of duty. officer jordan wingate crashed his patrol car this was in the summer of 2018 while responding to reports of suspicious activity over at the port of oakland. he succumbed to his injuries last saturday at the age of 28. wingate was born in walnut creek. starting his public service career as an oakland police cadet in 2013. his memorial service will take place at 11 a.m. today at three crosses church in castro valley. the funeral procession to lafayette will follow today's service. developing right now in southern california, firefighters don't yet know what sparked this major fire that happened on a beloved pier. this was the scene last night at oceanside pier near san diego. here's how it looked at the height of the fire yesterday afternoon. you can barely recognize it. it started at a vacant restaurant space at the end of the pier. nobody was injured but the oceanside pier is severely damaged. it was built in night in 1887. it is

one of the longest wooden piers on the west coast. reporter a live look in san francisco. this where, you know, as the weather gets warmer, people actually get a new option to get the most out of golden gate park. i want to tell you about this because, you know, a lot of people are like, i don't want to buy this. you know, things are expensive now, so don't have to worry about buying your own roller skates or even inline skates. anyone over the age of 13 will now be able to rent them starting tomorrow, and on saturdays and sundays, people will actually be able to rent skates and a favorite skate spot in the park known as skating place. yeah, so this is near sixth avenue and on jfk promenade. it will cost you $20 for the first hour. and then $5 for each additional hour after that. safety gear is also available for rent, and i lived in my roller skates from like age five to age ten. a little bit older, but okay. no, like i would go up and down the stairs. i can't believe my parents

allowed it. yeah, we had a long driveway and i. i'm warm inside. a lot of fun though. always the problem for my husband is having size 15. oh my god, rentals. he has to get those ones with the little key that just kind of fit over your shoes. yeah, i remember those. all right. i don't know if they have those for rent, but it will be a nice weekend for enjoying some time outside. and you can skate right on down to the end of golden gate park and celebrate the dutch king's day windmill festival. we're going to have some great weather for that. a lot of free entertainment going on there and enjoying the scenery and the flowers. we're going to see temperatures at noon at about 60 degrees and only reaching into the low 60s. and it will be another windy day tomorrow as well. we also have beautiful weather for the cherry blossom festival in cupertino tomorrow, and it starts out at about 59 degrees and sunny. but as we go throughout the day, much more comfortable as we see our temperatures there in the upper 60s. and we'll see upper 62 in sonoma valley, a mostly sunny sky for both saturday and

sunday and slightly warmer for sunday too. so maybe you want to head to the coastline or in santa cruz. we'll see temperatures in the upper 60s for both saturday and sunday. we'll talk about the spotty showers we're seeing out there now, but for mike, you, mike, you're not seeing any traffic alerts. yeah no traffic alerts. and in fact very light traffic though there is a crash near the dublin interchange. i've got my eyes on that. we're also talking about the traffic ahead. so we know we have that full closure for 680 southbound. as your alternates in the yellow or the orange. and i just talked about that. i've also posted that on social media. now there's another closure continuing same one as last weekend for westbound. westbound 3729 to 12 to 121. that's your alternate that adds more mileage and then not this weekend, but the following two weekends. it will be eastbound where there's the closure. we'll remind you, of course, about those as well. we do have impact to some transit systems as well. i'll go more closely over this in an upcoming report. back to you. thanks, mike. up next, we have the story of an unbreakable bond formed

through motherhood ahead on today in the bay. two women came together during their surrogacy journey, and now they have a message for anyone struggling with infertility. the latest update on weapons to ukraine and the argument in the supreme court that a president should be lifted. all right. and plus the giants are playing ball when it comes to protecting the environment. so we're going to look at the changes oracle park is making just to make things more green than orange this season, at least in some

this morning in new york city. this is after spending the day upstate. he'll actually campaign in queens today. oh, scott mcgrew another former president waking up in the big apple as well. it's a big city. so yeah, donald trump, who goes back to court today. he's going to hear more from his former friend, the publisher of the national enquirer. we'll get to that one in a second. as for biden, he was up in syracuse, new york, to announce billions of dollars in grants for chipmaker micron technologies to build a massive new chip fab there. it's paid for through the bipartisan chip bill. at least 9000 of which are construction jobs, 11,000 manufacturing jobs, tens of thousands more up and down the supply chain. and it includes 9000 permanent micron manufacturing jobs. former president trump, meanwhile, first criminal trial continues

today. more cross-examination of the national enquirer's david pecker yesterday, pecker said his newspaper paid to catch and kill karen mcdougal's story about an affair with trump. but trump never paid him back. so when the second woman, stormy daniels, came forward with her story, pecker wouldn't put up more money, he said. and that's how trump's lawyer ended up paying. prosecutors say it was the repaid payment to michael cohen, where the business records were forged. now, trump acknowledges the payments but says there were no affairs. there were also trump lawyers in the supreme court yesterday arguing the presidents should be immune from criminal charges. the same questions that came up in lower courts came up again. could a president order the assassination of a political opponent? could he sell nuclear secrets to a foreign country? yes, in certain cases, said trump's lawyer, john sauer, because his legal theory is set up in such a way he really can't answer otherwise. just in, kagan

pointed out that the whole point of the american revolution was a fight between americans who wrote down that it was self-evident that all men were created equal, and a king who thought he was above the law, justice jackson said. a president who could do anything would be dangerous if someone with those kinds of powers, the most powerful person in the world, with the greatest amount of authority, he could go into office knowing that there would be no potential penalty for committing crimes. i'm trying to understand what the difference incentive is from turning the oval office into the, you know, the seat of criminal activity in this country. defense secretary austin will pay announce rather the purchase plan for new weapons to ukraine today, including patriot batteries and other weapons that will be built here in america. there are two types of weapons that go to ukraine. one comes from

drawdown. these are the weapons that can be loaded onto planes immediately because they come from our warehouses in many cases, their weapons we don't use anymore, like cluster munitions pictured here. the others are manufactured specifically for shipment to ukraine. and that's what austin's going to talk about today. but either way, the new weapons or the replacements for the weapons we already have are almost entirely built in america. so when we say we're setting aside money for ukraine, chris, really, most of it is spent here. that is always a good point. i like when you bring that up. thank you scott. so nbc bay area is helping to mark infertility awareness week. and after a long journey battling infertility, we have a storybook ending for one mother and the surrogate who helped her fulfill her dreams. jennifer wagner replied to an instagram story about a woman seeking help with her infertility issues, and jen messaged kate durkin. even though they lived on opposite coast, they met up in new york and kate said she was hopeful but knew all too well how

difficult it is to even get to this point. and i really went through a lot to get here and it was i multiple tries of my own, multiple miscarriages and multiple different diagnoses, and also a lot of, sort of unexplained diagnoses. 18 months later, after going through a surrogacy agency, kate's dream of becoming a mother was a reality. jen carried to term one of kate's eggs, which she first froze ten years ago. kate says she doesn't have enough ways or words to thank her. coming up at 8:00, we will discuss the surrogacy agency that the two women used and the best practices, plus the difficulty in matching an intended surrogate and a mother. well, one local bay area sports team is doing its part to help our climate and crisis. meteorologist kari hall taking a look at how the san francisco giants are trying to hit a home run. when it comes to the environment. yeah, and the san francisco giants are trying to cover all their bases when it

comes to sustainability this season. you'll see more bike lanes around oracle park, making it easier and safer for fans and bicyclists in the city. and if you're driving to a game, well, any other event at oracle, there will be more ev charging stations available later on this season. and if you don't want to drive giants officials say faster and more frequent caltrain rides to and from the peninsula and to the south bay can also help you get to the park. this can reduce your carbon footprint and keep the air clean. for our fans that are biking to the ballpark will be able to continue to use the bike valet service, which is run by the bike coalition and located along the park. the port walk. and then for our self parkers, the bike racks that are located behind the bleachers on the coke bottle side will still be available. now, the giants have continuously won awards for being a green stadium in 2022. they got their 13th green glove award. it's an annual award given to the team with the highest rate of waste diversion

waste diversion, and that includes recycling, composting, food donations and energy recovery and for more stories like these, visit us on our website nbc bay area .com and click on the climate in crisis tab and while you're talking about the giants, let's talk about this. don't forget our giants taking on the pirates this weekend for the three game series. you don't want to miss that. it's from oracle park at 7:00 tonight and you can watch it right here on nbc bay area. well, it's nice that they're going to be playing at home because the weather looks lovely. yes, it looks great out there just walking around the city, going out to dinner, then going to the park. it's going to be a nice one. even though we are starting out with some clouds, we've seen some light showers here and there and we're also getting some cooler than normal temperatures. where in san francisco we'll see a high of 62 today and 66 in novato. oakland today we'll see a high of 64 there, as well as 64 in fremont and mid 60s for the south bay. the 7-day forecast is coming up at the bottom of the

screen as we see slightly warmer temperatures for tomorrow concord one of the warmer spots at 73, while san francisco will reach a high of 64. and then looking at sunday, that warming trend continues as we go closer to what we usually see for late april early may 73rd, in san jose and in morgan hill. but this evening out there, oracle park, it's going to be windy. heads up about that. you want to dress in layers because it's going to feel cooler than that actual temperature. we'll see if we get some curve balls because of these winds gusting at 36mph later today, and still even some higher wind gusts for the evening. and then the winds start to calm down later tonight. we're also getting some spotty sprinkles here and there, a lot of clouds, and the best chance of seeing some light, measurable rain will be in the east bay and the tri-valley, where we could see up to a 10th of an inch of rain for dublin and livermore. but there may be other areas here and there that really don't measure anything. so this is not a significant system, and it does clear out

for the weekend. after this, we're going to be warming up with highs in the low to mid 70s in the valleys for the weekend. upper 70s into tuesday. and san francisco will have some gusty winds and clouds today, but the weekend is looking really pleasant. and mike, you've got some more notes that we as we head into the weekend. yeah, usually it's friday light, but today the toll plaza was unusually heavy. i think there was a disabled vehicle that slowly made its way off the span. so recovery across the span, but look how slow it was there. and there's also slower drive across the richmond bridge. that's now. now bart is an alternate to the bay bridge, but there are some alterations this weekend. you'll have no red line service, and busses will replace two segments of those bart lines. so do check that. and the ferry continues to be suspended from sausalito. back to you. thank you mike. happening now, if you were looking to add a family member in east bay shelter has lots of critters looking for forever homes. the oakland animal services has more than 130 adoptable dogs. they're over capacity right now. they're looking for some support and

they're looking to place those little pups and dogs. oakland animal services offering reduced adoption fees just to make that happen. you can go to their website to find out the hours and the animals who need new homes. and coming up, a last look at the top stories. this morning, including that breaking news out of san francisco this morning with that massive fire, has sent smoke across the city. those flames engulfed that four level building near pacific heights. we're going to update you on the evacuations and t

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5740 this morning. i want to welcome you back as we move you forward with a look at our top stories here, starting with that breaking news out of san francisco. this is where firefighters are still monitoring that massive early morning fire that tore through an apartment building. here's a live look for you at the scene. this is at clay and lynn in presidio heights. now, you can see right there that the flames are out from what we can see. but there was a time those flames engulfed that four story building. this is a residential building. we are hearing that it was vacant at the time of the fire. there are no injuries, but that fire was a scary morning for our neighbors here. so that fire did trigger some evacuations in the nearby buildings surrounding it. it

started around 440 this morning. and right here, this is what those flames look like this morning as firefighters were battling it. now firefighters do tell us that it was being painted and that's why you saw the scaffolding outside of the building. we also know that smoke from that fire spread to neighborhoods well across the bay area, as far away as the tenderloin. so far, it is still too soon to know what started the fire. 658 right now, and let's take a live look at the east bay and southbound interstate 680, which will look very different this weekend. caltrans is going to shut down the southbound stretch between 580 and highway 84 for repaving. this is a nine mile stretch of southbound lanes and the on ramps for southbound stone ridge drive. bernal avenue sunol boulevard will all be closed as well. this happens at 9:00 tonight. it is expected to reopen early monday morning in time for the morning commute. at least that's what mike's crossing his fingers for. he usually open a few hours early. yeah, it's nice to see when those projects go ahead of

schedule, and sometimes weather is a factor. this one. not not this weekend. hopefully it actually gets repaved. okay, that's part of your route i know. yeah. so we're going to see temperatures in the upper 60s and low 70s for the weekend. actually it won't get repaved. it's going to get resurfaced. so instead of pavement there will be concrete. so that should be better. but we'll see. there's your alternate to southbound 680. and remember we still have that closure for westbound 37 as well. your alternate in orange up and over. so carrie is going to be even smoother than usual. absolutely the today show is just ahead. we are continuing today in the bay on roku and other platforms starting at 9 or 8. i should say a pay gap for women in technology. we're talking about that. plus, scott mcgrew breaks down all the business and tech for the day. donald trump's fate before the highest court in the land. >> with a question for the ages. can he or any president be prosecuted for their actions? it's april 26th.