The steps oakland leaders are taking amid a string of complaints from businesses along the heckenberger corridor. Breaking news just in. A 78yearold woman now being accused in that deadly crash at that bus stop in San Francisco. According to court records, mary fing lau was arrested on three counts of vehicular manslaughter as well as reckless driing and driving the wrong way. An suv dropped into a crash where four people were waiting. Three people have died. A baby is fighting for their life. People started loving mementos at the site of the crash. Many are still struggling to process how this all happened. I was trying to visualize it. I thought it happened on the other side of west portal. No, its by the library. By the library. I cant imagine. How did it happen . Theres a memorial planned for 5 00 tonight at that site. Good morning. Thanks for joining us. Our other top story, oakland, state leaders are working to address growing crime concerns near the oakland airport. Kris sanchez joining us live with more on that new push. This comes as several businesses have made changes citing crime concerns. Reporter right. They want to make sure theres action happening, not just for travellers coming and going from Oakland International but for the people that work in the businesses that have been hit by crime. You see them milling about behind me. We will get more specific details later. I want to show you what we are talking about. Oaklands mayor talked about the fact that the partnerships that we see between Oakland Police and the chp and the Sheriffs Department should not be read as weaknesses. However, as power of the collaborative nature. What happens when these departments work together. The corridor has been very hard hit by crime. You might remember we just reported that taco bell closed its dining room, in n out is pulling out. Dennys pulling out of the city. There was a lot of talk about the fact this this is the part of oakland people see for the first time when they come to oakland, and the last when they are leaving. Here is the Oakland City Council member for the district on whats been happening. We sustained over 2 million in the department of violence preve prevention. We approved 300 Safety Cameras. We have added hr staff to fill vacant Crisis Response positions. We partnered with the port of oakland who are here with their Financial Investment in technology tools. We worked to secure Safety Cameras in district 6 and 7. We approved an opd staff study and grant writer. We are demonstrating that when you invest in our community, you will see real change. We did get data from the california highway patrol. They say that the numbers show that the focused attention here in the last three months over the three months before resulted in improvements in crime. 63 decrease in auto burglaries. 69 decrease in theft. 7 decrease in robberies. The chp alone arrested 168 people in the month of february. There are a lot of numbers to work out. Our colleague is here as well. Shes going to report on that coming up in our evening newscast. In oakland, kris sanchez, nbc bay area news. Theres more Police Presence there. Hopefully, things get better. Thank you. Supporters of the District Attorney pamela price are addressing claims of fraud in the petition drive to force a recall vote. Recall organizers turned in what they claim are more than 120,000 signatures, well past the 73,000 needed. The registrar is counting the signatures manually. We cannot ignore that race is a factor in calling for a recall when an elected official has only been here less than a year. Right . We also cannot ignore that there are many forces here that absolutely, unequivocally do not want criminal justice reform. The Organization Claims many of the signatures in the recall effort are false. It showed videos of unmanned signature tables and signatures collected from people outside of the county as evidence. Those claims have yet to be verified. Just in, a former San Francisco public utility commissioner chief is being sentenced to two years in prison. Harlan kelly is convicted off fraud charges for corruption in city government. He stepped down in 2020. He was charged with fraud. A total of ten individuals, including the former public works director, have been implicated in the scandal. Class is in session in the trivalley this midday. This despite a fire destroying a high school gym. It happened last night at Amador Valley high school. The fire broke out at a gym on campus. But its the schools smaller gym more than 100 years old. The larger main gym was not impacted. They are working with authorities and right now theres no word on how it started. New at 11 00, traffic back open for drivers in san rafael. A structure fire along fourth street. Police shut down that area briefly as a result. Police posted this video at the scene of the structure fire. No one was hurt. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. We are awaiting details on president joe bidens phone call with benjamin netanyahu. Look at the White House Briefing room. They are waiting for someone to speak. Jake sullivan is expected to deliver an update in just a few moments on that exchange. The two leaders last spoke in february. White house saying that they have discussed the situation in rafah and efforts to increase humanitarian aid to palestinians. It comes amid tensions in the relationship between the two leaders and just days after Chuck Schumer called for the israeli Prime Minister to be replaced in elections after the war in gaza winds down. Today, President Biden expected to sign an order expanding Womens Health research. The executive order will include dozens of action for federal departments. This is all part of the president s fund on Womens Health which he announced earlier this month. Less than two weeks before the start of baseball season. The giants are suddenly saying farewell to their longtime public address announcer. First baseman, number 9, brandon bell. A new release, the giants saying she will not return to the team this season. This is after 24 years behind the microphone. Her first year with the team coincided with the giants first year at the then new stadium ballpark, that is. Shes been there ever since. Through more than 2,000 games. The team calls it a mutual agreement after a new contract could not be reached. The team plans to honor her with a booth renaming sometime this season. So far, the team has not indicated who will replace her. Here is a live look. Golden gate bridge. Lets go outside. For ream. Its not going to last. We see the warm and sunny weather continue. Here is walnut creek, clear and blue. Beautiful. Temperatures starting to warm up after a cool start. We were in the upper 40s and even some low 40s in a few spots. Now we are at 61 in san jose. A little better as we head for the lunch hour into the afternoon. In the low 70s in martinez. We will hit height temperature around 3 00 to 4 00 today. We are going to be well above normal, what we typically see, with our highs in the mid 70s for much of the inland valleys today. Mike, you were tracking Major Projects over the weekend. A lot of work going on. This is great. There is work going on in the trivalley, but the full closure of 680 reopened. It actually was finished up 90 minutes early. No nail biting. We had a good morning commute, despite a couple of crashes. Highway 84 has the oneway Traffic Control because of the damage we suffered from storms months ago. This will still go on. Over here, a smooth drive through contra costa county. They turned off the metering lights. We also had a closure on the red line that has been restored. Over the weekend, saturday and sunday, they had major track work going on. We warned you about that. This morning it restarted right on time. Bart and the rest of the agencies, they want to note today. I want to share with you that before you head out of the house later or on transit, you should know today is transit Employee Appreciation day. I talked to a spokesman and what the goal is. The goal of transit worker Appreciation Day is very simple. Its simply an acknowledgement that the people who do the work to get you where you need to go on Public Transportation are people, too. Say hello. Wave to your vta light rail operator. Say hello to the bart station agent. Thank them. They go to work every day. Its a difficult job at times. They are day in and day out. Good note for you. Even if you dont ride transit, you likely cross paths with someone helping out in the Public Transportation system. A wave to them. Communicate with your eyes. Friendly eyes. They might keep going by if you are doing that. Wishing transit workers appreciation today. Appreciate everyone. The ceo of united speaking out about flight issues. Ahead for you, we will tell you why he is addressing safety concerns. History at chase center. The warriors take the court tonight, but not the usual players. The all female team set to mark a milestone this month. We will be right back. Mylowes rewards credit card saves us 5 on the things we need. 5 off. 5 off. 5 of. And, as loyalty members, we get points toward mylowes money for the things we want. Oh, we want this. The all new mylowes rewars Loyalty Program is her. Download the app to joi, earn and save toda. Thousands of women with Metastatic Breast Cancer are living in the moment and taking ibrance. Ibrance with an aromatase inhibitor is for adults with hr positive, her2 negative Metastatic Breast Cancer as the first hormonal based therapy. 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The victim has not been identified. Police are calling it an isolated incident. United airlines ceo trying to reassure travellers. He sent an email saying, safety is our highest priority and is at the center of everything we do. Unfortunately, our airline has experienced a number of incidents that are reminders of the importance of safety. He continued saying united is working with employees on its safety procedures all while the faa is investigating the mishaps. None of the recent incidents a piece of a plane fell. Workers did not discover it until the plane landed. Two weeks ago, a united plane lost a wheel during takeoff from sfo. That plane landed safely at lax. Target is introducing changes to its selfcheckout lane. Now shoppers are limited to ten items if they choose to go through the selfcheckout lane. The new policy is in effect in many Stores Across the country. The changes are meant to make the process faster. Theres some mixed opinions on the new policy. The line goes quicker. Also, i feel like its not very convenient for some people that take are buying a lot of stuff. I like someone doing it for me. I dont like touching the screens. Good point there. The stores are also changing their policies. Some walmarts are limiting the option to certain customers. Costco is checking membership cards in the selfcheckout line to minimize the risk of card sharing. Crab season will continue for now. One Environmental Group said its a bad idea. The California Department of fish and wildlife deemed it safe to continue crab fishing in monterey bay. Officials were worried about crab fishing lines endangering the humpback whales. But there arent many whales in the area yet so the crab fishing season can continue. They said its a bad decision and may be too late. By the time they do another risk assessment, they cant just say, immediately get all the gear out. They need to give fishermen time. The department will reassess in a few weeks and then make a decision on whether to end the season. Lets get another look at that forecast, because its a glorious day. It has been nice. We are going to have a couple more days like this. Then we will start to see it getting cooler by the end of the week. It is starting to warm up out there with oakland at 56 degrees. Its 59 in dublin. Its 61 now in san jose. A look at what you may be feeling, not necessarily seeing. We have a high amount of oak, cedar and pine trees that are aggravating a lot of peoples allergies right now. Coating your vehicles also. If you need to go through the wash today, its a good day for that. A few more dry days before rain comes back. We are going to see temperatures this afternoon headed for the low to mid 70s for the inner bay. Even upper san mateo. Then looking at tomorrow, its coming down a couple of degrees. Still very mild and well above normal for this time of year. Hayward reaching a high of 69. See upper 60s out there. If you look at the forecast at the bottom of the screen, we are going to make progress toward winter as we now officially welcome in spring. This is what the wide view of the satellite image looks like. Its clear here. High pressure is keeping any storms from moving into the bay area. Eventually, thats going to start to break down. The warm air will start to surge farther to the south. Cold air will be dropping in as we get a couple of storm systems coming in for the weekend into early next week. We are going to see rain changes coming back with sierra snow. This is going to be our first weekend in spring where we will talk about highs only in the upper 50s and low 60s. Look at the changes that walnut creek will see going from mid 70s today to some more seasonable weather for the end of the week. Only making it into the low 60s for the weekend into early next week. That cold air is going to hang around for a while. We get scattered showers in our forecast throughout the weekend. Spring officially begins tomorrow evening at 8 06. Then we see those temperatures coming down. This weekend, we will see a mix of sun and clouds. Some scattered showers on friday. Look at those numbers. We will be back to umbrellas, jackets and maybe even the heavier coats. Its going to be chilly. At times, some rain coming in. We are going to enjoy the mild sunshine we have for the next couple of days. What a change. That surprised me. I was liking spring. You and me both. The warriors will try to continue their roll with the battle against the knicks tonight at the chase center. Things looking up with curry back. On saturday, they beat the lakers in los angeles. The warriors are in a virtual tie with the lakers for the ninth seed in the playoff chase. They will celebrate all things women with a female telecast honoring womens empowerment month. The new playbyplay announcer will call the game. Women will hold all the microphones pre and post. Coverage starts at 6 00 p. M. A Bay Area Committee laying out its playbook to make sure Sports Events score big with fans. They are watching over major events, including the nba all star game, the super bowl over at levi stadium and the fifa world cup. The president of every local team is a part of the committee, that includes jeff smith, a new president with the wnba future golden state team. We got a chance to speak about the goal of the company. As those events come to free fruition, we want to show why our facilities and why this community are ones that should benefit from these countries. They are working to get more major events to the bay area. Youtube requiring content suppliers to say if they are using ai. They say it aims to help users determine what is real and whats not on its site. The Company Announced back in november it was making changes when it comes to ai policy. The bay areas newest professional soccer team scores a historic win. They won its first womens Soccer League match. Soccer league match. Ahead, we will take a lookt a kelly has two choices. A Honey Baked Ham thats been slow smoked, hand glazed, and spiral sliced. Or, a kelly baked ham. Nobody wants a kelly baked meal, not even kelly. Every bite is a celebration with the Honey Baked Ham company. Two bay area colleges are ready to do some dancing. St. Marrys made the tournament. They are the fifth seed in the west region. They take on grand canyon friday. Not the usual for stanford womens team. They are not a top seed for the first time in five years. Stanford is the number two seed in the west. They host norfolk state on friday. Good luck to them. A victory for the newest professional team here. Winners in their First National womens Soccer League match. The team travelled down to Southern California to take on angel city fc. In the first half, the first milestone moment, that is when oshawala scored the first goal in bay fc history. They took the lead into halftime. The angel city, they kept the pressure on in the second half. Bay fcs keeper actually had a record tieing eight saves in the regular season debut. That defensive near the end of the game, that actually was the play of the day, preserving the lead in the second half. Bay fc wins its first match, 10. Here is reaction. As a team today, we told ourselves we will have fun and work for each other. Everyone was out there running for each other, working for each other. Thats what we will do until we get it right. This win means everything. Its inspiring. First win as a franchise. They won because they believed in themselves. They have so much passion. A desire to come out on top. A lot of credit to the players. Next saturday, bay fc plays the washington spirit on the road in dc. You may want to buy a lottery ticket. The powerball jackpot, 645 miion. 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