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paparazzi are, i guess everything's everything's coming up roses for shakira. it's it is smart. she this is a good roll up to the album. all the publicity she's gotten all the interviews really good roll up and a good looking guy. there you go. uh, we and what he is hoping to accomplish in this role, plus, shaping the future of artificial intelligence in government. >> we talk live with san jose's it chief about the proactive steps being taken and coming up later. >> a's fans planning an opening day boycott tomorrow at the coliseum as the team begins what could be its last season playing in oakland. we'll talk live with a local fan group about the effort to convince owner john fisher to sell from ktvu. >> fox two news. this is the
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four and oakland's newest police chief was introduced to the public today during an event by mayor shengtao. >> floyd mitchell will now be leading that department, which has been without a police chief for more than a year now. welcome to the. for this afternoon. >> i'm alex savage and i'm heather holmes. and with crime a major concern in the city of oakland, this new police chief certainly has a difficult task ahead. our crime reporter, henry lee, live for us this afternoon at oakland police department headquarters. after talking with the new chief and also hearing about his priorities, henry. >> yeah, the new top cop knows he's an outsider with little knowledge of the inner workings of the oakland police department . but he says that will soon change as he works to earn the trust of his officers and the public. >> it is my honor to introduce to you our new top police officer, chief floyd mitchell. >> incoming oakland police chief floyd mitchell filling the void in leadership after more than a year without a top cop, a former
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police chief in texas, mitchell says he has much to learn and a lot to give. i will work tirelessly to earn the trust, respect and confidence of my police department members. >> oakland's residents and its businesses, mayor shengtao said. >> mitchell's soft spoken style belies a strong work ethic. >> he's not flashy, but he will roll up his sleeves and do the real work. that real impactful work to ensure our community's success. >> my approach is high visibility, responsible pro active policing that is procedurally just data driven and grounded in evidence based strategies, he said he's committed to continuing to reform the department, which is just short of getting out of federal oversight. i am going to sit down with the monitor and identify specifically what we need to do and how we need to do it to get to the end of this road. >> i asked, what qualifies him to be able to answer to many bosses, including the police
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commission, the mayor, and the federal monitor. >> i'm just going to say my experience and just trying to collaborate and build strong relationships with everyone involved. the adage that everyone has a seat at the table and what we all do and say matters. >> city council members trevor reed and nikki fortunato bass say they like what they're seeing in the new chief. >> i think he said a lot of things that we want to hear. he's going to be proactive. he's going to be responsive, he's going to have deep community engagement, and he's going to be a guardian of what is the best interest of this city. >> i'm absolutely optimistic that, you know, we have learned about his efforts around crime reduction, about community led, community involved policing. >> now, the new chief says he has a lot planned for his first 100 days. that includes meeting with all the stakeholders from community members, the police union, the rank and file, and the citizens and business owners who have been waiting for more than a year for leadership at the top of oakland police guys. >> all right, henry, we know that most recently, he was the
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police chief in lubbock, texas, and that department, he faced some issues and a controversy around unanswered 911 calls. obviously, the city of oakland, as we've reported, has faced some similar issues. did he address those issues today? >> yeah, he did, and he said he's learned from that experience primarily that he relied too much on the formal chain of command without listening directly to the boots on the ground. and understanding and grasping the stress that those dispatchers in lubbock, texas, were going through and how best he could alleviate that stress. >> and again, a similar situation being felt in oakland. henry, there is obviously been a lot of criticism of mayor shengtao leading up to this appointment. people kind of disappointed with how long it has taken to actually get a new chief. do you get any sense that that those concerns have now dissipated? >> yeah. yes and no. the oakland naacp have been highly critical of the mayor for firing chief laurent armstrong, but in recent
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days, they've put out a release saying, you know what? they are squarely welcoming new chief mitchell or excited about him coming and welcoming his presence. they want to partner with him now. of course, the anti-police terror project, which has been always, you know, historically critical of the police, are saying they want the new chief and the department to rein in overtime spending. they're also a little concerned that chief mitchell has an air force background. they don't want to see opd militarized at all. yeah. >> nonetheless, though, it is a fresh start for opd from this point forward. all right. thanks so much, henry. appreciate it. >> this afternoon, san jose city leaders gathered with a group committed to using ai for social good. the newly formed partnership with the gov ai coalition held its first public forum today, designed to help people learn about the group's mission. this partnership is intended to ensure local government has a voice in the future of ai, and how it's used for the public. >> and here with us now is colette tawfik, san jose chief information officer and director
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of information technology. thanks so much for being here. you were at that meeting today. this is a really a broad coalition of local, county and state governments. i mean, you're all tackling the same problems. so it really makes sense for you to tackle them together. >> absolutely. the need for us to come together to identify how we can collaborate and divide the work, with the identified early on last year when i became a major initiative in government and the coalition was established last november, the main purpose is to collaborate, divide the work and learn from each other's experience so we can improve how we tackle challenges we have and improve service to our community. >> so. so what do you think are the most significant ways that artificial intelligence is likely to be used in the public sector, and how do you see it ultimately benefiting a city like san jose? >> in many ways, there are a lot of repetitive work that we do. there are a lot of things that
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we have to go in the field to investigate. if there is a way for us to kind of be ncaa, alcs or proactively achieve and address challenges before they become concerns from the community, that's where i can really be beneficial and help us identify things that are instead of receiving calls from ppe one one. if we can predict where in the next, condition is going to be, or where the next pothole or the next graffiti, and if we can be proactive in addressing these issues before the community, find them and report them, i think the ai can be really successful in helping us, providing that better service to alameda. >> yeah. what were some of the biggest issues? the biggest concern that you heard from your constituents and your counterparts at today's meeting, a lot of companies that we've been dealing with this, group for about six months, and, and one of the main things we've been trying to tackle, number one, to understand, we've been seeking to understand before we develop guidelines and policies,
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is anything we do without a deep understanding of the challenges, it will be risky, so we established guidelines last year where we release our ai policy this week. and one of the main things we're trying to understand, and protect is the privacy of the people. understand, to make sure that the ai does not introduce any bias that might, impact some communities versus others. understand how this can be used in a responsible manner that improves services without impacting the privacy of the people. yeah. >> i mean, obviously when you're in city government, you are dealing all the time with with highly sensitive information. a lot of personal information of city residents here. what do you believe are going to have to be the kind of guardrails that should be put in place to make sure that you're protecting people's privacy and you're making sure that data is secure when you're using these ai tools, one of the main things that we're trying to tackle is, number one, to have a voice with
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the big software companies, we want to understand what data they're keeping, what data are they using, how are they driving the decisions and want to make sure that we understand and understand what measures they are implementing to protect the data and to protect the decisions that they make and to make sure it's fair, it's equitable, it's protected for our data. and also understand what data they keep for the long tum versus just to train the ai models. so all these questions that we're developing together to make sure that we have a common voice when we deal with the with the vendors and make sure that we be consistent between government agency is key for us to drive our point forward and also to help big software companies and small companies to understand what we're looking for. so as they plan their next releases for ai, they understand that these are the things that we're going to be measure tracking to make sure that the data is protected and used in a responsible manner. and galette i mean, obviously,
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it's great that this coalition is meeting to share ideas and to share possible solutions, but it seems as though the technology is constantly evolving. >> do you think that local governments, state agencies, the federal government is going to be able to keep up? >> great question. i don't think we can do it alone. that's why the coalition is so critical to get have about 200 agencies coming together. and we're meeting almost every week between working groups, because it's bigger than one of us. one number one, technology is moving so fast, too. we don't have enough resources and technical skills to keep up with the fast speed. but if by dividing the work, we were able to establish guidelines, establish, templates for policy, establish, script for, for, assessing different, software solutions and how they're using, data and what kind of protection measure they're doing. all of that was done because we have a coalition of people see this challenge, excited about the technology,
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see the opportunity, but also understand the risk and understand the need to work together to make things all right. >> and lastly, we're almost out of time. but what is the timeline here? when do you expect you, you and your partners at these other agencies and other cities will come up with this framework for how to responsibly use ai in city government? we actually publish all our information this month, and this was the phase one of the coalition. >> and the goal was to establish a common template for the policy , and most of our the agencies already committed to comply with, with what we have agreed to include in our policies. and the second thing is, which is starting in april, we it's a call for action. we're going to take this policy and start to implementing some of the things that we want to implement in different cities, guided by the principles established by the by the by default. all right. so it really within four months we were able to establish all of that. and hopefully the next six months we're going to see some
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implementation responsibility application the test drive the policy and make sure that it's done in the responsible manner. >> okay. moving forward with ai in city government here. we appreciate the conversation and the insight. khalid tawfik from the city of san jose. thanks for doing it. >> thank you. thank you. sure. all right. >> well, now we go to monterey this afternoon. monterey county. and after more than 13 months, when that levee breach flooded the farming community of pajaro, a residents today lining up for the very first day of an expanded recovery financial aid program. >> and that aid is being distributed directly to families who were affected, as well as businesses and residents say it is desperately needed. ktvu mark sayer is joining us now live from that aid center in the community of pajaro with a look at what is happening there. mark we know that there were a whole lot of people who showed up today looking for help turn out. >> yeah, alex and heather, this is just one of those reminders of these of these crises that we hear about. and then all of a sudden, you know, whatever happened and they kind of drift into history. take a look at this, this shows you that 13
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months after the flooding in pajaro, the need is still here. the demand is still strong. the line you're looking at here, people are actually in line just to get numbers, to then be admitted into the tent that you see right behind us. and that is where they have registration officials in there registering all these folks for the aid. we interviewed somebody over two hours ago who had number 81. we just heard number 40 and 41 called here. so that just gives you an idea of how many people are here and how slowly this is all going. the high demand here, more than a year after the floods, just shows you how hard this community was hit. this road to recovery here remains very long. let's take you back a year ago. this is to march of 2023. that's when nearly the entire town was wiped out. homes and cars were flooded and destroyed in those living here. had to evacuate to shelters and to hotels. and many residents here say that, yes, they were able to get short terms, help for housing and other immediate needs from both federal and state programs. but now monterey
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county has come up with a grant from the state with $20 million, and they are distributing that $20 million between individual aid for folks who lost personal property in their homes. the other portion of it is going to businesses, business owners who lost their businesses. and that is how the aid is being distributed. it's a one stop shop. people come here, they enroll, and they provide their documentation. and that is how the aid program is working. but again, here we are. this has been like this all day long. people just constantly coming. we expect this work ends today. more people will come. it's been a long line. the demand remains high and don't forget we are 13 months after the floods here in pajaro. alex, heather. >> all right. so, mark, obviously a lot of people looking for additional assistance here, but we know that many people in that community already received help, whether it was federal assistance or assistance from the state. how do how does that all interact here? the different streams of financial assistance? yes, exactly.
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>> this is in addition to you cannot double dip. so if you've received if you had $100,000 in losses, for example, and fema reimbursed you a certain amount of that, this is for the amount you did not get reimbursed for fema. so they do say they're going to be very clear with documentation and required documentation. you can't file for the same problem twice. be you know, be be get the money from the federal government and then the money from the county. so that's one of the things that they're looking at here in the paperwork process. yeah. but that turnout today mark, really indicative of the need that exists. >> really appreciate your live report today mark. thank you. appreciate it. all right. there are some new updates to tell you about on the efforts underway following the crew. the ship crash excuse me, that caused that bridge there in baltimore to collapse the timeline being put together after investigators today secured the ship's black box. >> and barry weather lots of cloud cover today. even a few scattered showers. the rainfall should increase tonight. that's the first system and a stronger one that's going to move n
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that bridge collapsed there in baltimore. divers have now recovered the bodies of two of six workers who plunged into the river after the collapse of the francis scott key bridge yesterday. according to investigators, the bodies were inside a pickup truck submerged in about 25ft of water. now the four other workers are also presumed dead. >> the national transportation safety board has been able to board that ship that hit the bridge to obtain its data recorder. now it could help officials determine what happened on the vessel before the collision. >> fox's griff jenkins has more now for us from baltimore. >> divers return to baltimore's patapsco river on wednesday to search for the bodies of six people presumed dead in yesterday's bridge collapse, but officials say cold temperatures choppy water and debris have complicated recovery efforts.
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>> none of the bodies have been have been recovered yet. >> as the search continues. the national transportation safety board is piecing together a timeline of events leading to the crash, using information recovered from the vessel's data recorder. the agency says investigators are boarding the ship wednesday to look at the devastation. >> our focus is on getting the perishable evidence. any other electronics that we want to take, any other sort of documentation logs with the ship traffic in the area to standstill. >> major companies, including general motors and ford, are rerouting shipments to other east coast ports. the port of baltimore is the ninth busiest in the country, handling high volumes of auto imports and farming equipment. >> there's not a lot of inventory sitting around, and inventory is usually what would buffer us against a disruption like this. >> transportation secretary pete buttigieg says crews will work to rebuild the bridge as quick as possible, but warns we could still see supply chain disruptions. >> you've got different
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shippers, different ports, different terminals, different cargo owners. they're under no requirement to talk to each other. >> maryland officials say the port of baltimore directly employs more than 15,000 workers in baltimore harbor. griff jenkins, fox news. >> and we expect to get another live update, this one from the ntsb, in the next hour. we will bring that to you live on ktvu news at five. >> all right. back here with the bay area, we will shift and talk about our weather as we give you this live look here out over the oakland estuary and you can see a gray day here. and we have another storm that is rolling into the bay area right now. the first of two storms that are going to hit us here in the coming days. meteorologist mark tamayo is here now with more on what is ahead for the rest of the week. mark. hi there. >> alex. yeah, the main energy with this next system will be coming on board later on this evening. let me fix that collar that looks. >> see it? i would have told you. i swear that was the first
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thing jumping out of me. >> yeah. here we go. we're good to go. rainfall? yeah, we are expecting those rain showers to pick up later on this evening. and so far, you can see the main focus has been up in the north bay healdsburg, just over a quarter of an inch of rain. petaluma .04. but in parts of the east bay, a little bit of some measurable rainfall out toward hayward and danville around .02 to .03. now, more rain on the way, showers developing tonight. so we are expecting this is not a major system, about 2/10 of an inch to about three quarters of an inch. now. later in the day, friday and into saturday, we could be talking about some heavier rainfall rates that could lead to some higher totals and some stronger winds as well. and maybe some thunderstorms. so kind of an active pattern headed our way here is the circulation as you can pick out in the pacific. so this big area of low pressure, there's this frontal band moving into northern california and some green showing up on the radar. nothing too major except to the north bay has seen some pretty good reports in terms of some some rain showers up there, especially up in sonoma county. but we have this line right now moving across parts of the south
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bay. so this has been moving from the north and heading to the south. and as we check out some of the current wind reports, there's a bit of a breeze out there in a few spots. so you can see concord winds gusting over 20 miles an hour. vacaville winds at about 18 miles an hour out toward sfo, winds up to 23 miles an hour. here's a live camera looking out toward the golden gate bridge and take a look at the windshield wipers. they are moving around a bit, so we have some low level moisture, some light to mist, or some drizzle, or a few showers right around the golden gate and current numbers in the 50s to the lower 60s san jose right now checking in 61 degrees. so the main action moves in later on this evening. this is 7:00. this is 10:00 tonight and then into your thursday. probably a sun cloud mix. there's a chance of a sprinkle or a leftover shower for your thursday. and then look what happens in a friday storm. number two, this will be stronger. this approaches our coastline. we'll talk more about this and your full weekend outlook coming up in just a little bit. >> all right. thank you mark. we are just a few days away from the start of a brand new month
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and a brand new opportunity to reset a bay area psychologist joins me live next with some tips on
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toll on people contributing to physical and mental health issues. and when it comes to ways to manage stress, well, many people are struggling to cope with a lot of people doing it alone. we take a look at this from the american psychological
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association's most recent survey. it shows that around 3 in 5 adults, 62, said that they do not talk about their stress overall because they don't want to burden others. well, today, folks, we're going to talk about it with doctor pam oren, clinical psychologist at kaiser permanente walnut creek. pam, always glad to have you back on the show. so it's natural and normal to be stressed sometimes, but when does it become problematic? >> hi heather, thanks for having me back. it becomes problematic when we see chronic stress, when we see stressors that occur over time without any resolution, we really need to get in there and do some activities to help activate the parasympathetic nervous system and increase levels of relaxation. and those feel good hormones when we are feeling stressed. >> yeah, we're going to get to ways to manage our stress in a moment. but but pam, it is national stress awareness month is coming up next month and april. so what are some of the common causes of stress. >> great questions. so many
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causes. particularly now we see a lot of family stressors. we see a lot of economic stress happening, financial hardships and stressors, as well as job stress, people experience a lot of stress in their jobs and they're not talking about it. in addition to all the things that are happening throughout the news and the country. political stress, all of those things contribute. yeah. >> okay. so how does all of this stress affect our body and our mind? >> so stress is really a bio psychosocial concern. so what stress does that activates our sympathetic nervous system or our fight or flight response which then releases stress hormones such as norepinephrine, epinephrine and adrenaline. so increase of those neurotransmitters in our brain do build up over time and can have adverse both medical and psychological consequences as well. >> i mentioned at the top of the
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segment that many people are dealing with their stress alone. and here's another takeaway from that survey that i mentioned. about 61% said that people around them just expect them to get over their stress. but pam, sometimes that's not so easy. >> it's so not that easy. i wish it were that easy, but it is not just easy to get over their stress. we need to engage actively in behaviors that help us manage our stress. we and we are social social creatures by nature. so i saw that, you know, that is a huge amount of people who are trying to manage the stress on their own. reach out to your trusted friends and family, let them know that you're experiencing stress, and then engage in activities that help calm you down. that looks very different for each individual. but we do know that things such as exercise, healthy diet, and sleep patterns can help decrease stress. >> yeah, as well as that, practicing that mindful meditation pam, some really good tips there. an important conversation and hopefully people will carry that on
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through the month of april. and beyond. so thank you so much. appreciate you coming on the show. >> thanks for having me. >> well, you may be seeing less political content on your instagram feed lately. after meta took steps to cut down on those particular posts. up next here on the for today, we're live with an expert to better understand why the platform has made these changes and we'll talk about what constitutes political conten
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parent company meta says it has taken steps to cut down on the
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political content. users see, this happened quietly last week when users noticed their default settings had been changed to limit content that mentions government, elections or social topics. users have to go into their settings to opt out of these changes. earlier this year, meta said instagram would stop recommending political content from accounts that users don't already follow. >> okay, so we want to talk more now about the effects of this move. we're joined by subramanian vincent, director of journalism and media ethics at santa clara university. thank you so much for being here. so why is meta making this change? i mean, what's the motivation here? >> so yeah, actually, thank you for listening to me on this call. the it's it is basically fundamentally an admission that algorithmic recommendation systems are not going to be able to tell the difference between political content. that's part of legitimate political discourse. that's not the one that ronna mcdaniel calls, but
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actual discourse. and you know, disinformation and hate speech, which is also political in nature because algorithmic recommendation systems mix up the two. they allow disinformation to spread really fast through viral means, as a result, what they have done is they're trying they have defaulted to an option where they will only let you see political content from the people you follow and from people you don't follow. the recommendation system is not even going to put it on your feed. so it's a means to actually tamper down, to actually dampen the fast spread of, all, all, all supercharged speech. you could have charged speech. that's not disinformation. you could have charged speech. that's actually that actually is lies and spreads much faster. so they're essentially trying to take a blunt approach to the inability of algorithms to do anything else. yeah. >> i mean, we look at how meta is defining political content. they mention sort of buzzwords
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like government and elections and social topics here. do you do you feel like the way we are defining political content is overly broad? >> this is a no win situation. i'm actually folks, whichever way you try to define, it's hard to define political, speech. it's hard to define what issues are actually, i mean, political itself because an issue is so intersecting. it could be human rights, it could be law. it could be voter disinformation, it could be where is a polling booth? and that suddenly becomes an issue. so however they define there are going to be people who feel that the definition is going to fall short. so the i would say we go up one limit higher and say, why does this? i mean, why is this even important? it's important because of the disinformation issue. it's important because there's also hate speech on, on on these, you know, apps all the time. therefore they're trying
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to find a way around it. so i don't think there's an easy way here. >> how much of this also has to do with perhaps meta trying to avoid any further government oversight or any government oversight and saying, look, we're taking steps to stop the spread of disinformation and to address some of lawmakers concerns. >> well, there's some sense that there is. this is also a this is also a i mean, reaction to the fact that they're not able to get, on top of news itself. they don't know how to distribute news in a way that doesn't implicate them with all the other problems that come with the with the actual spread of lies and so on. i don't know if it's as much i can't speculate about whether it's a fear of regulation itself, but i think it's more a design feature. just imagine if this feature of limiting followers only to your to the speech that appears on your feed. imagine if this was a feature added in 2012. then what would have happened? then we
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might have seen this more like on the road. when you meet people, when you meet people physically, you only have the kind of exchange that with people you know about elections, about issues and so on. you don't take speech from somebody who's 5000 miles away and let that influence you. but that happens on social media because they've continuously connected and spread speech using their super rapid, i mean, i mean, technology. so so i feel this feature is i feel that the jury is out. we'll have to let people actually use the feature and see. i don't think it's altogether good because it's going to harm smaller news publishers who now will not be discoverable. discovery is going to get hurt for smaller news publishers, but we'll have to let it play out. yeah. >> on that. on that question of the smaller news publishers, i'm curious about this. we know that meta has sort of this stated strategy of not boosting news stories on its social media platform, but at the same time, the reporting says that more people than ever are turning to
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instagram for their news, especially as we head into this election year. help us, help us square those two things. why wouldn't instagram, meta and instagram lean into news if people are turning to the platform for the information? >> so it's the same thing that we said earlier. they're not able to make a, a socio technical distinction between legitimate news that actually is done through journalism and things that claim to be news that are newsworthy, but can be can be completely false claims and at the scale at which it spreads by the time they come in and use content moderation to attempt to take action, it's too late. so so throw it all. toss it all out. yeah, yeah yeah. >> okay i we appreciate the conversation. thank you so much. subramanium vincent from santa clara university. thank you so much. we appreciate your insight . >> yeah. thank you alex. all right. thank you. >> thank you okay. >> opening day for both bay area baseball teams is almost here.
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but frustrated a's fans, a lot of them not planning to buy tickets. they're boycotting. we're going to talk live with an organizer about exactly what's being planned and a barry weather. >> the clouds definitely moving in and some scattered rain out there off and on across parts of the bay area this afternoon. the rainfall expected to pick up this evening, and then then another storm. as we head toward
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have returned. as we take a live look across the bay, you can see alcatraz there, and you can also see the golden gate bridge buoy really socked in with a lot of fog there in the background. mark is back now with a look at the rest of your forecast for this workweek. >> yeah, we're talking about two systems this week, heather. first one is moving in basically this evening into tonight. then another one, the stronger one. we've kind of been advertising all week long that set to move in on friday that could linger. that in fact will linger into saturday. so rainfall expectations with this first one about a quarter of an inch to maybe three quarters of an inch up in the coastal hills, winds have been up. there are no wind advisories in the sierra will pick up some more snowfall. so you can see in comparison, the first system, it's much weaker than the one that's going to come in on friday, and that one on friday will lead to maybe some more. some winds, stronger winds, and also maybe some thunderstorms as well, especially as we head towards
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saturday. so on the satellite you can pick out the circulation up here. and then here's the front. it's really been focused up in northern california all day long. but some bands of some rain showers, some light to rain showers moving across parts of the bay area earlier today off and on throughout the afternoon hours. and here's a closer look at some of the radar coverage right now, as you can pick out closer to solano county, parts of the napa county as well, moving the maps around to the other part of the bay down in the south bay from morgan hill to gilroy, and maybe in the santa cruz mountains as well. we'll show you some of the wind reports out there. there is a breeze developing. most winds out of the south this afternoon. right now, sfo gusting to 23 miles an hour. half moon bay gusting are actually sustained at about 15. and here is our live camera looking out toward sfo. we not only have the mid-level clouds, but also looks like some lower clouds have settled in as well. this afternoon. current numbers in the 50s in san francisco, 58, oakland 58 degrees and san jose in the lower 60s. now tomorrow will be kind of saying goodbye to this system coming on board tonight. so we'll have some
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cloud cover around, and there's still a chance of a leftover sprinkle or a leftover shower first thing tomorrow morning. but the opening day for the a's we are expecting this partly cloudy skies. actually a pretty nice forecast as we head into your thursday, and temperatures will be in the mid 50s. so here's the overall weather pattern. a lot happening in the pacific. here's the storm track. here's the one system we're watching out for tonight and the one way upstream here. this will be approaching the area by friday and into the weekend. tonight the rainfall will be spreading to the south once again. it's not a major storm at all. and that stronger system that's going to move in on friday. and this could linger into, into into saturday with some rain and maybe some thunderstorms. and by the way, this will also be a big time rain producer down in southern california. now in the sierra, they actually have a winter storm warning. so we continue to add to that snow pack right now with the winter storm warning in place. and that's going to be in place until 11:00 tomorrow morning. so here's the forecast model. once again, the main activity this evening. this is 11:00 tonight. the activity could be ramping up. and then tomorrow the clouds, some breaks
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in the clouds and the chance of a leftover sprinkle or a light shower throughout the day. and then look what happens friday. there's that second system coming on board. definitely will boost the rainfall rates by friday. that will continue into the weekend. highs for tomorrow will be in the upper 50s to the lower 60s. and here's a look ahead. there's that second system on friday, showers likely into saturday. on sunday for easter, as a slight chance of a leftover sprinkle. but for the most part we should have improving conditions for all the easter egg hunts on sunday and maybe a warming pattern into early next week. >> all right. sounds good mark. thank you. tomorrow is opening day for the oakland a's as they begin what could be their last season playing at the coliseum. the team, of course, is planning move to las vegas and frustrated a's fans are planning to stage an opening day boycott tomorrow's action is being organized by the fan group last dive bar. they're urging fans to skip the game and join a protest and tailgate in parking lot b,
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the opening day demonstration will kick off what is being described as a summer of boycott, with fans urging a's owner john fisher to sell the team to keep them in town for more. we are joined now by brian johansen from last dive bar. brian, thanks for the time. good to see you here. what is the plan for opening day tomorrow and what's the message you are hoping to send here at the start of what could potentially be the final season at the coliseum? >> yeah, well, thank you for having me on. and so yeah, i mean, much like, fan fest was we're hoping to get 15, 20,000 people in that parking lot and it's going to be a huge, huge party. and basically it's an opportunity for people that weren't going to give their money to fisher anyways, to have an opportunity to come together, celebrate as fans. we got tons of activities, planned. there's going to be food, there's going to be games, there's tons of giveaways. we have 5000 sell flags at the oakland 68 will be giving away that we're, you know, co-hosting the event with. and then, we have a thousand giveaway pins that's got, like, cavill blocked. you and
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everything like that, we have two different mariachi banda bands coming, and so we got a bunch of carnival games where you can knock down a clown. and if you knock down three clowns, you get a prize, and then, and then on top of the fifth inning, we want in unison cars and people to be, chanting, sell the, sell the team. and we hope everybody that's inside on the broadcast is going to hear everybody outside. and, you know, gates opened. unfortunately at 5:00. and so that's when the boycott is going to get started. yeah >> let me ask you about the gates opening here, because i know that the parking lot is opening later than usual tomorrow, just two hours before first pitch for this game. we did ask for a comment from the oakland a's about why this was. we have not yet heard back. why do you believe that the gates at the parking lot are opening later tomorrow? >> yeah. so, i mean, i think it's a direct response to the boycott and trying to thwart, our efforts and the amount of fans that will be there, they
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they the only comment they said was that, it was due to low ticket sales. and so the gate times, you know, and what time they open, is warranted, however, it doesn't take into account, into account the 15 to 20,000 fans that will be in the parking lot and also the, the duel event that's going on in the concert. and so we're expecting around like one, 2:00, you're going to have a line of cars backed up all the way to the freeway. and so, i mean, we're concerned, you know, public safety and traffic's going to be ridiculous on the reverse boycott. people didn't get into the game until the sixth or seventh inning. and, and so, you know, we know that the city is aware of this and, and so we're hoping that there'll be some changes maybe tomorrow, to the gate opening times. but as of right now, it's 5:00. we think it's irresponsible of the a's to do this, and, they're not looking at the best interests of the public, the fans that are coming. and although we're boycotting, we're still fans of the a's. and we've been fans of the a's for 55 plus years. and so, it's just yet another slap in the face at the executive, front office is provided to this fan base.
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>> all right. so talk about how your you're hoping that tomorrow's boycott on opening day will carry over throughout this entire season. you're calling this the summer of boycott, what what are you hoping this will accomplish for this season? >> yeah. so the summer of boycott, it's not necessarily just about a boycott, but i mean, a lot of fans in general are boycotting and stop going to a's games for years because of the treatment of ownership. and so the summer of boycott in particular, and you can go to summer of boycott.com, where we have everything listed, we have it explained what this boycott means. and so we have tons of events throughout the entire baseball season where we're going to give fans the alternative of instead of going to an a's game and giving john fisher money that he's just going to use to relocate, you can go and experience the roots, the soul, the oakland ballers, the stockton ports, who we've actually signed a deal with. and we'll be doing events up in stockton, and so there's going to just be tons of, alternatives for fans to continue to, to
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engage in fandom and sports community and, and do it in a positive way, and doing it in a unique and creative way, because that's what oakland fans are all about. >> do you worry at all that you continue this boycott all throughout the season? you have the scenes of sort of empty stands at the coliseum. are you concerned at all that plays right into john fisher's hands? that helps him to make the case for why he's leaving the city of oakland? >> yeah, not at all. i mean, the decision to move out of oakland was a decision of john fisher and john fisher's alone. oakland has two, two spots that within 18 months can be shovel, shovel ready. they can build at the coliseum site. they can build at howard terminal in a far scaled back version. so those are ready to go. it's john fisher decision to move the a's out of oakland. it's not oakland's decision. it's john fisher he can build at oakland if he wanted to. and so we've had empty seats for years because of the treatment of, of the ownership, to fans and, and so empty seats has been there
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forever. and that goes all the way back to the shot and hoffman days and, they've been trying to relocate since 1996. and it's well documented that ownership just simply wants to relocate, even though you have many viable options in oakland and you have a fan base that does stuff that no other fan base does do, there's not a single fan base that has ever organized a fan fest with 20,000 people. six x oakland legends, and a multitude of community vendors and community activists that were there. and so, no, the fan base is doing what we've done, you know, between the oakland 68 and last eibar, you know, it's just it's just sad that the oakland a's, you know, don't make use of it and don't, don't love it back . >> all right. well, the opening day boycott in the parking lot, parking lot be at the coliseum gets underway at 5:00 when the gates open tomorrow. we appreciate the time today. brian johansen from the group last dive bar. thanks for doing it. >> all right. thank you very much. absolutely
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>> all right. much more news. headed your way here on the for this afternoon. but first we do want to check on the roads around the bay area. we'll give you this live look here at the san mateo bridge. you can see the traffic is starting to get a little bit heavy there. as you head eastbound across the span. >> and coming up on ktvu news at five, we're expecting that ntsb update to give us some new details about that bridge collapse in baltimore. again, two bodies recovered today, we're going to carry that news conference live whenever it begins. and we're. >> yeah, we are also going to head to pacifica as well, where a woman is dead this afternoon after a police shooting that happened earlier in the day, the latest on this investigation into what led up to the gunfire here that is coming up in just a couple of minutes on the ktvu ne
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to college campuses to inspire young people to follow their dreams. astronaut nicole mann was born in petaluma. last year, she spent six months at the international space station and completed two spacewalks. her story is now inspiring the next generation of astronauts, engineers and scientists. she told young people at estrella mountain community college in arizona that they can do anything they put their minds to. mann is also a colonel in the marine corps and served as a combat fighter and test pilot. >> okay, and speaking of inspiration, a gathering in richmond today honoring women who went into the workforce during world war two, building
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ships and planes for the us military and one of the original rosie the riveters attended the event at the home front national historic park, named after the women who built ships there during the war. 6 million women joined the labor force. at that time, thousands were employed at the richmond shipyards, coming from all over the country. on april 10th, congress will award the congressional gold medal to rosie the riveter in honor of every woman who supported the us war effort. >> all right, in our ktvu idea of the day, we asked image generator midjourney to make us an image honoring the many achievements of working women and to imagine rosie the riveter in her role as a nasa astronaut. and here is what it came back with that uplifting image here, created by ai
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far smaller number of people actually participate. fox's ted linder takes a closer look at the reasons why and why it's not too late to get more involved. >> reduce, reuse, recycle. it's a simple phrase packing big meaning recycling helps keep more waste from winding up in landfills, where piles of plastic trash takes hundreds of years to decompose, releasing harmful greenhouse gas emissions like methane in the process. according to data from the
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nonprofit group project drawdown recycling, between 2020 and 2050 is expected to reduce emissions by 5.5 to 6 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide. that's equal to removing more than 1 billion vehicles off the streets for a year. >> we really have to think about the bigger picture. >> but while a 2022 study by the world economic forum found 94% of americans support recycling, only 35% actually do it. the main reason stopping people is a lack of convenience and confusion over what exactly can be recycled. >> pay attention to the labels on the package and look for the ways that they are sort of indicating for you to recycle them, because it actually hurts the system if you recycle in the wrong way. >> but the buck doesn't stop with recycling cups, bottles, and containers. >> food waste is a big portion of the waste that that goes into the landfill. >> the environmental protection agency says composting is nature's way of recycling. james sternberg of clemson university
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says a lack of industrial composting centers makes it harder for more people to compost. if you can't compost at home. sternberg recommends thinking about how much food you buy so you don't over consume. the epa reports food waste results in more methane emissions than any other material breaking down in landfills. ted lindner, fox news. >> ktvu, fox two news at five starts now. >> now at five, a pacifica woman accused of shooting her adult son is then shot dead by police. we are at the scene with the latest from investigators. plus i will work tirelessly to earn the trust, respect and confidence of my police department members. >> oakland's residents and its businesses. >> the city of oakland meets its newest police chief. how floyd mitchell is pledging to reform the department and the investigation into the baltimore bridge collapse picks up speed as divers recover two bodies from the river. >> good evening. i'm julie julie haener and i'm mike mibach. >> we begin with the latest ou

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