too. i'm sure you are. we'll see you tomorrow trump's claim of absolute immunity, but several justices signaled reservations about the charges that could cause a series of delays. >> as you've indicated, this case has huge implications for the presidency, for the future of the presidency, for the future of the country. in my view. >> from ktvu, fox two news. this is the four. >> an historic day at the us supreme court. welcome to the four. >> i'm christien kafton and i'm heather holmes. the justices are hearing arguments on the issue of presidential immunity and whether former president trump can avoid prosecution for charges that he tried to undo his 2020 election loss. >> ktvu jana katsuyama, joining us now live from the newsroom with details on today's dramatic

day in court. jenna. >> cristian and heather, this is a case that goes to the fundamental core of how we define presidential power and also whether protections, while someone is in office extends after they leave office. >> we will hear argument this morning in case 23 939 trump versus united states. mr. >> donald trump's attorney d john sauer began the hearing with his opening statements without presidential immunity from criminal prosecution, there can be no presidency as we know it. >> for 234 years of american history, no president was ever prosecuted for his official acts. >> sauer claimed donald trump's actions were official when trump tried to switch the 2020 election results to his favor. trump's attorney argued that a former president should qualify for immunity from prosecution for official acts while in office, but the government's attorney, michael dreeben, said such presidential immunity has no foundation in the constitution or the supreme court's history. >> this court has never recognized absolute criminal

immunity for any public official . his novel theory would immunize former presidents for criminal liability for bribery, treason, sedition, murder, and here conspiring to use fraud to overturn the results of an election and perpetuate himself in power. >> the supreme court justices acknowledged the magnitude of the hearing, and for more than 2.5 hours wednesday, they grilled attorneys on both sides in assessing the official acts of a president. >> do you differentiate between the president acting as president and the president acting as candidate? >> trump's attorney said immunity should not cover private acts, but should cover official acts and the organization of alternate slates of electors. was trump taking official action? justice ketanji brown jackson asked about the dangers of immunity, the potential for criminal liability is taken off the table.

>> wouldn't there be a significant risk that future presidents would be emboldened to commit crimes with abandon while they're in office? >> justice elena kagan questioned if a president ordered a military coup, would it be considered immune? trump's attorney said it would be an official act, but should be addressed through impeachment. the justices pressed trump's attorney on the question of how to distinguish between official and unofficial acts. >> no man is above the law and that the president can be prosecuted after he leaves office for his private conduct, is that right? >> we agree with that. >> and then the question becomes, as we've been exploring here today a little bit about how to segregate private from official conduct that may or may not enjoy some immunity. >> the justices will now confer within a conference. they could try to expedite this decision. they do have the option to reject the immunity plea, meaning it would go to trial. they could accept the immunity, which would put a complete halt

to the case or they can also decide to hand it back down to a lower court and that would cause a delay in the trial and push it probably past the november election. of course, if trump wins that election, he could order the department of justice to drop the case. >> that's right. of course. jenna, politics always a part of all of this or the questions around that as well. three of the supreme court justices gorsuch, kavanaugh and barrett all appointed by the former president. was there any indication in their questioning of how they might rule? >> well, it was interesting and obviously a lot of scrutiny there. gorsuch suggested that if presidents fear prosecution, they could pardon themselves, which might have seemed to be quite favorable to the trump attorney. barrett challenge trump's attorney on his assertion that a former president would need to be impeached, and then convicted before a criminal prosecution. so it was interesting to see their lines of questioning. certainly will be waiting to see how the final vote comes out when it's announced.

>> yes. all right. something we will be closely watching jana katsuyama in the newsroom. thank you. we want to continue our discussion on this important case and bring in david levine, constitutional law expert at uc law, san francisco. thank you so much, david, for being here. so as gianna was just mentioning, the justices seem unwilling to give trump absolute immunity, but they may not be immediately ready to green light a criminal trial. >> well, that's right, heather, it looks like they're trying to find a middle position. it doesn't seem as if there's certainly there's not five votes for the idea that there's complete immunity, that no matter what a president does while in office, whether it's murder, bribery, or what have you, is immune from prosecution forever, that doesn't seem to be a position that's going to hold sway. and on the other hand, it doesn't look like we have five votes for the proposition that it is possible to prosecute for anything. and so as justice gorsuch said, it's when do you do that? sorting how do you do

that sorting, previous, previous case had talked about the outer perimeter of presidential power. and the government's position here is that trying to arrange a coup to stay in power, trying to falsify electoral votes is, well outside. any idea of what a president should be doing, and that there's no need to sort this out in this case. but i think at least several of the justices are going to be open to the possibility that the trial judge will be directed to do some sorting here and make sure that the government is only prosecuting on matters that are beyond that perimeter. >> and, david, you know, you brought this up in your answer there just a moment ago, that one of the things that justices like to do is kind of game out different hypotheticals in this case, they gamed out the possibility of an assassination. they talked about whether fdr could be prosecuted for the internment of japanese americans during world war two. how does

that figure and how do those questions and the answers provided by those attorneys play out here? >> christian? well, i think there were different responses. i think one that was pretty shocking was the idea with the hypotheticals that the president could ask seal team six or direct seal team six to murder a political opponent and mr. trump's lawyer seemed to suggest, well, that would be okay unless the president were to be impeached and convicted by two thirds of the senate. that seemed to set people back a little bit, without a doubt. there's got to be some wiggle room. so, for example, when president obama directed that, bin laden be killed out in pakistan, that's something where presumably, no, no american court would want to entertain the idea that mr. obama was responsible for murder because it was within his charge. so it's getting that line right. the government's position is

everything that they've charged mr. trump with is beyond wherever that line might be. and maybe there's a day down the line that they might have to answer something. but, mr. trump well exceeded that in trying to avoid the peaceful transfer of power and to manipulate the electoral college, it seems like a big part of this, david, is this idea that some acts may be private, others official. >> how do you make that distinction? >> well, that's that's the trick , heather, and that has to be done. i mean, there are times when that has to be done, we do that with a range of immunities for different players in the system. and it can be done, i think, in this case, because time is of the essence, certainly from the government's point of view. and mr. trump would like this to take place, never, the speed and the and the way in which this has to be sorted out is going to be really important. so at one extreme, it could be that the district court could be told, look along the way, make evidentiary rulings that are consistent with policing the official private

line. and at the other end, it could be you have to have a complete hearing at the beginning before anything else can happen, and sort out what is and is not legitimate, and make that subject to an appeal now, which would mean it would take another year before the case could ever possibly get to trial. and of course, mr. mr. trump's hope is that he can postpone and postpone. and then if and when he wins in november, that come january three, he'll be able to direct dismissal of the case. >> yeah, no doubt about it. timing is part of this. absolutely. and i mean is everything in this case absolutely wanted to get to you about that because this has been a very consequential term for the supreme court taking up huge issues abortion, homelessness. >> now this is are we still looking at getting these decisions all out by june? is that when we're looking at getting all of these decisions, it seems like a lot of work for them to get through in just a matter of weeks. it is a lot of work, christian, and they are a little bit behind in getting

opinions out, but they've always done it before for, you can extend a little bit into july, but as a practical matter, they want to get this all done in june. >> and so they're all working hard. this is when the law clerks are working 16 hour days or more, to get the work done. and they'll manage to do it. but what will happen is that we're going to see a flurry of the big opinions coming out somewhere between, let's say, june 15th and june 30th. it's the way it always happens. there just seemed to be a lot of blockbusters in this term, but they'll handle it. we'll be seeing them and we'll have this, festival of opinions to look at, come later in the spring and maybe you and i or the three of us will be talking about those in a few weeks. >> yeah, no doubt about it. a very consequential term for the us supreme court. david levine, always appreciate your expertise. thanks again, sir, for joining us. >> always a pleasure. good to see you both. >> you too. >> well, like we said, a consequential day in dc, a

beautiful day around the bay right now. mark tamayo joining us now with a look at how our forecast is shaping up. and mark, i remember some talk earlier this week of the possibility of rain around thursday. friday. is that still in the offing? yeah there's the possibility of christian first thing overnight into tomorrow morning. >> we could have a few isolated showers or at least some drizzle. so it's not a very strong organized storm for us, but still enough moisture, enough dynamics in the atmosphere to produce maybe a few sprinkles or maybe some drizzle. first thing tomorrow morning, you probably have noticed this. the temperatures slide over the past several days. remember sunday and monday? temperatures in the 70s and the 80s. now we're just thinking some upper 50s and the 60s. and here's the plan for your friday as we jump right into the forecast. lots of clouds tomorrow morning, possibility of some drizzle or maybe some borderline light rain and then into the afternoon hours. partly cloudy skies, some gusty winds developing could be over 20 approaching 30 miles an hour, especially near the coast and also in the bay area hills. now here's the satellite and the

radar. as you can see here, this is the moisture we have been watching moving into the north bay right now, moving into northern california. so even this evening we could have a few sprinkles or a light shower. what's interesting with this pattern? setting up the sierra, they could actually pick up some snowfall. as we move into your friday. right now though, the satellites definitely picking up on the cloud cover out there for your thursday afternoon as we expand the view in the pacific. this is the system we're watching a little bit of a dip in the jet stream here. and this responsible for the cloud cover. and that the shower chance for this evening also into your friday. as far as the winds showing you the wind reports right now. it has been kind of a blustery period over the past few days in oakland airport, novato, gusting to over 30 miles an hour sfos we check out the winds there 31 miles an hour in san jose at about 25 miles an hour. so we still have the green hillsides out there, but we also have the clouds working their way into the area. current numbers in the upper 50s to the 60s. and as we check out the forecast model, put this into motion. you'll notice lots of

clouds and maybe a sprinkle or a or a light shower into the afternoon hours. let's keep an eye on some of this activity that could be approaching the east bay in terms of showers and maybe some thunderstorms. just outside of the bay area, but it does bear watching as we head into your friday forecast. what about your weekend? we'll have the full update in a little bit. >> all righty mark, we'll definitely check back in with you. san francisco preparing to crack down on parking violations . we'll tell you why. so many parking enforcement teams say that could put them in harm's way. >> and the governor out today touting a new record for clean energy. what he says the state's elec ic rid ha

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enforcing the rules while they're a bit nervous. yeah. >> parking control officers protested today, saying the action will put them at risk. yeah. >> our tom vacar was at a rally today in the city and joins us now live with the workers concerns. tom >> well, consider this nobody really wants a huge increase in

the number of parking tickets handed out. and that also includes the very folks who hang them on the cars. >> 60 san francisco parking control officers say previous stepped up parking enforcement or fine increases have led to increased threats and even assaults, making their work more dangerous without consulting them in advance, which puts a target on our backs. >> and, you know, it puts us in a in a precarious situation with the residents and the challenges that we face. >> it shouldn't just be a top down decision. it's not thoughtful at all. and that should not be how we govern. we still haven't gotten a date, the actual date when we'll be doing that. >> officers also say drug addicted, mentally ill as well as unhoused people will add to their dangers. that's especially true in these unarmed officers are being directed to ticket people living in their vehicles during encampment removals, as well as having to enforce parking rules at open air drug

markets, weapons and, you know, vicious animals. >> we encounter that on a daily basis. >> they already don't like us. so i feel like this extra enforcement is just going to make them have much more animosity towards us. >> officer schexnayder learned that after ticketing a car in front of its angry owner. >> i followed me about 2 or 3 blocks, waited for me at the stoplight, approached my vehicle, punched the window and cut my eye. >> muni station agents say they experienced much of the same everything in the subway. >> what you see on the street is happening in the subway. also this is an important issue all by itself, but there's something else and it's for sure that this has political implications. >> and this is an election year. >> the buck stops with the mayor , muni writes. >> our parking control officers are provided. de-escalate training, self-defense tools and have access to our internal dispatch center that communicates directly with sfpd

for any assistance they need. now, the agency says since 2018, the amount of crime on the muni has actually gone down by 48. sounds great, but the ridership now is also down 29. and that suggests that the actual crime decreases 19. not so rosy, especially for those folks that hang the tickets on the car. tom vacar ktvu fox two news. >> tom, thank you. >> officials with the san francisco public utilities commission say they are moving forward with plans to purchase the electric grid from pg and e. the city gave an update on those efforts in a webinar today. officials say that clean power sf already provides more than 70% of the electricity used in san francisco. they say that pg and e has rejected its offer of $2.5 billion to purchase its power grid, so now it has asked

the state public utilities commission for an independent valuation of the grid. the city says it would pay for the purchase with bonds covered by income from customer bills. >> we will keep our operating costs and rates low by eliminating profits, income taxes, exorbitant executive bonuses and other costs charged by pg and e. no general fund dollars are needed. >> the cpuc hearings on valuing the city's electric grid are set to start later this year, with a decision expected in 2025. >> california has surpassed a major clean energy milestone. governor newsom today announcing that for more than a month, the state has been running on 100% clean energy. newsom says the achievement is unprecedented and critical to achieving the state's ambitious goal of 100% clean energy by 2045, 40 days out of the last 48, 40 of the last 48 days, we've been running

100% clean energy on the grid. >> this is simply unprecedented. the fifth largest economy in the world. 11 days straight, breaking all records 100. green wind, water, solar. i mean, it's just extraordinary. >> the state's energy grid says california has surpassed 10,000mw of battery storage capacity. the excess generation has gone to more battery storage and extra electricity. electricity. energy has been sent to other states. >> well, a bill that would allow candidates and elected officials to use campaign funds for personal security has now passed the state assembly. the bill was authored by east bay assembly member mia bonta. it now goes to the state senate. bonta said she authored the bill because of an increase in threats against public officials, especially women. if approved and signed by the governor, the measure would go into effect immediately. hundreds of protesters arrested at college campuses as students voice dissent against the war in gaza. the unrest now leading one

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avenue just before noon yesterday. a witness said the driver of a black volkswagen tiguan fired into the back of a gray nissan altima. now the nissan driver fired at least one round in return. no one was hurt. the driver that ultima,

though, pulled over for police, but the driver of the volkswagen led officers on a chase that ended in downtown santa rosa. 34 year-old william kammerer faces several felonies, including shooting into an occupied vehicle that other driver, a 20 year old man, also faces felony firearms charges. >> the man is facing up to 18 months in jail after a jury convicted him of attacking another man, whose car he tampered with. the victim said he found 41 year old jose gutierrez sitting in his car on march 7th. prosecutors say when the victim told gutierrez to get out, gutierrez hit him in the face with a metal pipe. gutierrez was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon. d.a. brooke jenkins said, quote, the jury's verdict holds mister gutierrez accountable and sends a message condemning violence in our community. sentencing is set for may. >> parents in the san francisco unified school district will have a chance to discuss a plan to close or merge some of the district's schools. sfusd is holding another virtual town hall beginning at five tonight. superinten matt wayne is set to

discuss the results from a community survey and discussions that took place at the end of march, as well as early april. participants were asked to rate the importance of 16 different criteria to determine school mergers, co-locations or closures. the district plan affects an unspecified number of schools. officials point to understaffing, declining enrollment and the condition of some of the older school buildings. >> usc today announced that it would suspend its may commencement ceremony following on campus protests over the war in gaza. the school will proceed with nearly two dozen smaller graduation ceremonies around campus. >> officials on college campuses really across the country, including at uc berkeley and other universities here in the bay area, are concerned about the ongoing protests and in some cases, police have been brought in to make arrests. fox's jonathan saari has more now on the campus. unrest >> pro-palestinian protests continuing to spread across college campuses on thursday.

>> you can see a forced show of force here. >> here in atlanta, police used tear gas and tasers to disperse several dozen protesters gathering at emory university. multiple people were forcibly removed, not for war and occupation. and in boston, more than 100 demonstrators were arrested at emerson college overnight in new york, leaders at columbia university say they will continue negotiating throughout at least midnight with students who have been camping out for more than a week . >> there's a constitutional right for people to express their views, and a constitutional right for people to come together and protest things, the university says. >> protesters agreed to remove tents and non-students from an encampment on the school's lawn, but thursday afternoon, the lawn did not look much different than it did earlier in the week, and some jewish students say they won't feel safe until that camp is removed. >> that's why the administration sends out some emails to students updating them on what's

going on. it's pretty much we're being left to fend for ourselves, but signs of solidarity are starting to emerge. >> there is a united for israel rally on campus thursday night, and israeli flags are being placed not far from the protests. and on wednesday, house speaker mike johnson warned military force could be on the table to clear out the tents. >> the madness has to stop. the madness has to stop. >> all this as schools prepare for the final days of the semester and graduation ceremonies in atlanta. john kerry fox news well, as the fighting continues in gaza, a top hamas official is revealing what he says it would take for the group to agree to a cease fire. >> hamas says it is willing to lay down its weapons, agree to a truce and transform into a political party. but they say only if an independent palestinian state is formed. that would include territory in the west bank, east jerusalem and gaza. >> if they can't finish hamas off, what is the solution? the

solution is to go to consensus. we have repeatedly offered the establishment of a fully sovereign palestinian state. >> israeli officials are not expected to even entertain that proposal, especially with more than 100 israeli hostages still being held by hamas in jerusalem. anger over the nearly seven month long hostage crisis is boiling over. last night, hundreds rioted outside the home of prime minister benjamin netanyahu, demanding the government do more to bring those hostages home. >> right. the latest gdp report is out, and it shows a much weaker economic start to the year than expected. stay with us. a financial expert ihere

stocks were lower today on wall street. shares of meta, the parent company of facebook, were down more than 10% over concerns about whether its big investments in artificial intelligence will pay off. the dow was down 375 points, a drop of 1. the nasdaq was off 100 points and the s&p dropped 23 points. >> economists looking closely at the latest data on the gross domestic product, where there may be signs of a slowing economy. yeah. >> the latest gdp report released today highlighting some sticky price pressures here with us now to break down these latest numbers is financial expert james mcbride of the mcbride group. james, always a pleasure to see you. the us economy though off to a slower start than most had expected. its growing at a rate slower than people are used to. >> or maybe what the government

wanted and maybe what economists estimated. but it's important to remember it is growing. what happened today, though, is that the growth numbers were lower than expected in the inflation numbers, particularly what's called the personal consumption index. that's so important to the fed is higher. so when you have inflation higher than growth, that's a recipe for what's called stagflation. that's what's scaring people. probably shouldn't worry about it too much right now. but i think that was underlying the concern on wall street today. and you mentioned the numbers about meta. they were not very good. so the market really took a dive. it closed down, like you said. the dow 375 points. but it started off down 700. so maybe some reacting to what it seen. yeah. but it came back i think it's what i'm trying to say. >> well and you touched on this consumer spending up 2.5% which is good. we like it's moving in the right direction. but it fell short of the 3.25% that we saw last quarter. wondering what

that means and what we can read into that. if we take a look into the tea leaves, so to speak. >> yeah, probably not a good idea to try to read too much into it, you know, because the good news is people are spending and the gdp number was lower. but remember, consumer spending is two thirds of our gdp. so the fact that people are out there spending is good for the economy. and it translates into a lot of good things for the economy. and we always have to remember, too, that we're at about a 50 year low on unemployment rates. so people are working, wages are growing, people are spending, but but the inflation situation is as you said. heather perfectly. it's sticky. yeah. it doesn't want to come down. so we're in this really crazy situation according to classical economics where the interest rates are rising. but people are still working, you know, and it's being tough to slow down, but that's not such a bad thing because basically we're at the soft landing that everybody was hoping for. >> but if this trend continues of this slow growth and strong inflation, what kind of position does that put the fed in?

>> great question. a tricky position right. very tricky. you know, because earlier in the year, maybe towards the end of last year the fed was saying, hey, we're willing to consider lowering the interest rates, but we're going to make it what they call data dependent, which of course is smart. but a lot of naysayers were saying, oh my goodness, the fed's going to lower the rates four times five times. some people have said six times, well, now people are hoping for one time. so it has changed the perspective of wall street because they're looking at this inflation. and i've always said i think the fed is doing the right thing. you don't want inflation to get out of control because that's worse than stagflation could ever be. but it is a balancing act and it's a very tough one. we have a very complex economy and with a lot of moving parts, in my opinion, they're doing a good job. but like i said, when the number is going up, that's always good. and looking at inflation, i think a lot of people are still holding off on some of those big ticket items buying homes, buying cars, where do we expect this to go? >> it's hard to say exactly, but where do we expect this to go?

when is the right time to buy make those big purchases? >> well, when it comes to the biggest purchase, we all make is our homes and home prices in california are only going one way, right? and one of the reasons is that people are not selling their homes like they used to. and a lot of people have very low mortgage rates, so they're not moving. so you the big thing on housing in california is we're not building enough new housing and there's not much inventory. you know, if you squeeze the inventory, squeeze the supply, then the man is going to go up. so it's probably not going to change irrespective of the interest rates. >> all right. always a pleasure to have you. thanks so much for breaking it down. really important numbers out today. thanks, james. >> my pleasure. thank you. >> hyundai meantime is recalling several thousand vehicles over fuel pump issues. genesis, the luxury brand of hyundai, is calling back just over 31,000 vehicles. models include gv70 and 80 from 2022 through 2023, as well as g80 and 90 also from

those same years, 2022 through 2023. safety regulators say fuel pumps on those cars could fail and cause the engine to stop, which could result in crash injuries. no injuries or deaths have been reported just yet, but letters will be sent to affected owners in just a few months on june 18th, and hyundai will replace the fuel pumps at no charge. >> the families of the victims of two boeing 737 max track crashes met with doj prosecutors this week, while the department of justice is urging them to criminally prosecute the airline manufacturer. stay with us. >> and in bay area weather, we have some cloud cover out there right now. here's a live camera looking out toward mount diablo. in the short term, maybe a few showers or a f spr kl

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conviction. in a shocking reversal of the landmark metoo case, the court of appeals ordered a new trial ruling that the judge erroneously allowed testimony from three women whose allegations were not part of the case. weinstein's lawyer called the reversal a tremendous victory in today's legal ruling. >> is a great day for america if it's a former president of the united states or the most storied hollywood producer of our generation, the law applies

to everyone. >> this today is an act of institutional betrayal, and our institutions betray survivors of male sexual violence. >> that's ashley judd. judd is among a list of actresses who have accused weinstein of sexual harassment. weinstein is serving a 23 year sentence in new york. the 72 year old is also serving a 16 year prison term for conviction in a los angeles rape case. >> families of the victims of two boeing 737 crashes met with prosecutors from the doj this week, the families urging the department of justice to criminally prosecute the airline manufacturer. fox's kevin corke is in washington with the latest on the justice department's probe. >> reporter prosecutors with the department of justice meeting with family members of victims of two deadly boeing 737 crashes the back to back crashes in 2018 and 2019, then launching a probe by the fbi and the dot. the

justice department faulting boeing for how it communicated with the faa. about 737 max flight control systems and later sent the jets into fatal nosedives. now, four months after a fuselage panel on a boeing 737 max ripped off mid-air, the doj is probing a criminal investigation into boeing. >> it is inconceivable to me that four months since the alaska air door blowout, there's even a question of whether things have changed. i hope the justice department reaches that same obvious conclusion. >> the families argue boeing violated a 2021 deal with prosecutors to overhaul its compliance program. now, the families are urging the fed to criminally prosecute boeing. >> it seems to us that the justice department unfortunately continues to be in bed with boeing. >> their meeting comes as boeing is midway through a 90 day

mandate by the faa to develop a comprehensive plan to address what the administration calls a systemic quality control issues that's going to be a very important part of them being able to prove to the faa satisfaction that it is acceptable for them to increase their production until boeing completes its plan, the faa is only permitting the company to expand its 737 max production by a fraction of what it had planned, something the transportation secretary acknowledges has negatively impacted some us airlines in washington. kevin corke, fox news as the department of transportation announcing a new rule requiring airlines to make refunds easier and fees more transparent. >> the new rule requires airlines to offer cash refunds within seven business days for significantly delayed or canceled flights, along with vouchers or travel credits. the department of transportation says this new rule, which will take effect over the next two

years, will save fliers more than $500 million a year. >> alameda county today held its second annual fair chance job fair to help formerly incarcerated people find jobs and much needed resources. 900 people registered to take part, and many lined up early outside the oakland coliseum, where that fair was held. several employers, including the u.s. postal service, amazon, southwest airlines, and cisco were there. a variety of wraparound services were also offered to help people get to the point where they can be employed, including the clean slate program and health care providers. >> we live in a world where second chances make a big difference. you know, people make mistakes, but everybody deserves an opportunity to grow from those mistakes and do better in life. and that's what we're here for. >> some of those attendees walking away with a job, a few of the employers at the fair maid on the spot offers to some of those job seekers. >> well, a community of houseboat residents in alameda is getting some help from the city when it comes to an ongoing

dispute with their landlord. the city of alameda is suing the owner of the barn hill marina for thousands of dollars in violations and what it calls draconian rent hikes. we get more this afternoon from ktvu allie rasmus. >> the barn hill marina is a tight knit community of 42 floating homes and a dozen liveaboard sailboats on the alameda side of the oakland estuary. >> most of us have been here a long time and are kind of older, so, you know, living on fixed income, sandy privates lived in her floating house with the red trim for 50 years. >> she and other houseboat owners pay rent to the owner of this marina to dock and hook up to water and electricity. three years ago, a new landlord bought the marina, an llc called valley investments redwoods. >> he started immediately with some demands that we had not expected, like doubling the rent privates $500 a month. >> boat slip went up to a thousand overnight. >> it's difficult for anybody to come up with something, you know, that's twice as much as they had been paying. when

something like that happens, it just, it does feel really insecure about your major home, your major investment in your life. >> it's also illegal under state and local rental laws to increase the rent by more than about 3% a year. >> exorbitant rent increases as much as 178. we find it to be incredibly egregious, and this is why we brought the action. >> the city of alameda fined the owner for the violation. he now owes them $120,000. but valley investments never paid. the high rents haven't come down. so now the city and the alameda county district attorney's office is suing the owner of the marina. >> the city attorney's office is going to work very hard, as quickly as the court system allows, to ensure that the tenants can remain at barnhill marina if they wish, protected by the city's rent control laws. valley investments redwoods does not have a business website, phone number or email listed. >> we contacted the attorneys

that represented them in an earlier case and are waiting to hear back from them. ali rasmus ktvu, fox two news well, definitely a cooler weather pattern setting up over northern california, and in the short term, there's a chance we could be tracking a few sprinkles or a few light showers. >> we'll jump right into your friday forecast. lots of clouds in the morning, the chance of some drizzle or borderline, some light rain, partly cloudy skies and you'll notice the winds probably a bit stronger than today. we could have winds around 25 to 35 miles an hour in the sierra. you might think the snowfall season is over, but they actually have the possibility of some snow in the forecast for tomorrow. so this was the scene looking out from sierra tahoe earlier today. snowfall could be around 1 to 4in and snow levels at about 6500ft. so maybe some some minor snow accumulations closer to at least just above lake level in the mountains. here's the satellite and the radar. a little bit of activity moving through portions of the north bay on the radar right now in terms of the green, the bulk of this is up to the north and also to the east. but we're going to

hold on to the cloud cover for tonight. we'll keep an eye on this shower activity right now. as you can see, approaching portions of lake county. so for tonight into tomorrow morning we could have some drizzle out there, maybe a few light showers. winds continue to be the big story this week. right now oakland airport gusting to 35 miles an hour. some windy conditions out toward sfo at about 31 miles an hour. and san jose winds at about 25. here's our live camera looking out toward sfo. lots of cloud cover showing up in this live picture right now, and the clouds will expand in coverage as we head into the overnight hours. kurt. numbers in the 50s and the 60s. tomorrow morning, lots of clouds and some drizzle, maybe borderline light rain. overnight lows will be in the upper 40s to the 50s. and as we put this model into motion, it tries to scale back on the cloud cover somewhat into your friday afternoon. and there's the eventual temperature range also traced in the strong northwesterly winds. we could have winds around 20 to 35 miles an hour, increasing throughout the afternoon hours. so here's the weather setup. this area of low pressure up to our north.

it's a cooler pattern. so no one warm ups, least in the short term forecast. this will continue to drop in from the north. we'll have the cloud cover out there, some gusty winds. and also just with this placement here this could set up the sierra snow showers for tomorrow. so here is the forecast model as we put this into motion. and here we are tomorrow morning. some clouds and maybe some spotty drizzle out there. and then into the afternoon hours. look at this. we're going to keep an eye on some of this potential activity approaching solano county. portions of the inland east bay tomorrow afternoon. there is a chance we could be tracking maybe a few wet thunderstorms with this action, but the bulk of the activity should be just outside of the bay area, and this weekend will be dry with more sunshine and a bit of a warming trend that wants to move in. highs for tomorrow will be in the upper 50s to the upper 60s. here's a look ahead. your weekend will be dry. a little bit of a bump up in those numbers by sunday. it's a nice pattern into early next week. >> mark, thank you very much. and let's see if we can take a look outside. yeah. >> we want to see how traffic is moving along. we're staying here

in the east bay as we take a live look at the macarthur maze. you know, it's where everything kind of comes together and usually creates some traffic jams. and that's exactly what's happening on this thursday afternoon here. >> absolutely. >> yep. okay, so coming up in just a few minutes on the news at five, we're staying on top of a terrible crash in pleasanton that sadly killed an entire family. what investigators know so far about what led up to this crash and an outage of the 911 computer system in san francisco, just one day after unveiling a new dispatch center. >> what authoritie know so far about

say there's plenty of other species that could be holding keys to future medications. >> researchers there are using a new ai software to try to unlock their potential secrets. fox's shawn langill takes a closer look. >> from cough drops to aspirin and beyond, many of the medical remedies we seek when we're sick have ingredients that come from nature, according to the department of agriculture. about 40% of drugs behind pharmacy counters in western countries are derived from plants. but now scientists are trying to discover medicines of the future, combining the natural and digital worlds with help from artificial intelligence. it's a huge study. researchers are using ai to analyze the

properties of hundreds of species of plants in an effort to see how they could be related. ai will then cross-reference that genetic data with the properties of known medicines we use today, say the project i'm leading at kew aims to address this challenge by developing an artificial intelligence approach to predict which plant species would be more likely to contain lead compounds for drug discovery. the team says finding other plants who can make new and existing medicines from is critical, citing how extracting materials from the same types of plants over time could cause dramatic declines in those species. >> the anti-cancer drug parkley taxol was first isolated from the pacific you, which resulted in killing many trees because it was sourced from the bark and so scientists turned to a related species in the same genus and

extracted similar chemicals from the leaves. >> sol-angel fox news more young people are taking up running, but the new healthy habit might not be all

at the alameda county fair in pleasanton this summer. the vallejo native is set to perform on june 20th. it is the second year in a row that he's headlined at the fair. this year's concert series also include performances from new edition member johnny gill, country singer ashley cooke, and the rock band the fray. tickets are on sale now. the fair runs from june 14th through july 7th. always a fun time there. more young people are exercising more with many turning to running. but for some, while the uptick might be related to a quarter life crisis, more than healthy habits, we get the story now from fox's kendall green. >> along the east river in manhattan, accompanied by the bloom of spring, hundreds run, escaping life's everyday rush. and justin's one of them. >> it's more mental health activity than a physical health activity. >> for me, as an experienced runner, he's crossed quite a few marathon finish lines 26 plus miles. he's proud to have in his rear view. as more young people find themselves rushing towards

the runner's high like nicole, who we literally ran into. what does running do for you? >> running makes me feel alive, using a lot of energy to get through my day and it makes me happy. >> and do you run marathons too? >> i want to run a marathon. i'm training for half a marathon in 2023. >> nearly a fifth of runners who finished the new york city marathon were in their 20s, compared to 15% back in 2019. journalist maggie morton shares perhaps there's more behind the mileage. >> whether that's harder, taking longer to find a career path that is meaningful to them, or taking longer to find a partner or things like that, or moving to a new city, you know, not having friends. >> she found younger runners were seeking purpose in identities outside of the social norms, like the house spouse and little ones. and some, in fact, were running through what she calls a quarter life crisis. >> being able to find that within running is something that that, you know, i think most people would say is pretty healthy. >> younger people in their 20s

are running more running marathons as a way to cope with life. why do you think that is? >> it is a real great stress relief, i'm not going to lie. i shut off my brain. i just run, listen to music, you get a little, you know, breathy, and it feels real good. >> but not everyone's just running from their problems. many are running into who they want to become and find themselves inching a little closer to a marathon each time. >> when i started running, like, five k's and ten k's, then just the people, all the energy they make, you want to keep going. and i thought it was a good challenge. so >> ktvu fox two news at five starts now. >> tragedy on a dangerous stretch of road in the east bay. authorities confirming a family of four has been killed in a crash in pleasanton. investigators are currently trying to figure out what factors were involved in that crash. good evening. i'm christm julie julie haener. >> thaashappened at about 9:00 last night on foothill road

near stone ridge drive. this latest tragedy is stirring memories of a similar crash nearly five years ago that also claimed a number of lives. ktvu jesse gary joins us now with new details in the investigation. jesse julie, good evening to you. >> and just minutes ago, i talked to pleasanton police. they say forensic investigators are still working at this hour to try to determine what caused this crash. was it a case of speed or did something else happen that led to the loss of a family of four, a mother, a father, their two children? this incident is causing a withering pain here in this community. and for the school district, which, as julie said, has seen this type of loss of life before. hours after impact, charred earth and firefighting foam tell part of the grisly tale on foothill road in pleasanton wednesday night, an electric vehicle carrying four people crashed into a tree and caught fire. pleasanton police investigators