We got a partial one here in the bay area. So much excitement from coast tocoast. We will show you. Good afternoon i am audrey asistio. Welcome to nbc bay area news. Ian cole had his eclipse glasses handy today, he will be joining us with the story a lot of people are still talking about right now. We are tracking other stories on this monday including, look at this. This crazy video from over the weekend. The bay bridge taken over by an illegal sideshow. The fallout and what the chp can do to stop this. The head of the sec comes to silicon valley. Firefighters in the bay talk about the problems they faced during a fire that has them calling for a change to Internet Access roles. Robert handa will be joining us over the fight over Net Neutrality. Lets begin with a story that had millions of americans looking up into the sky today, maybe you as well. The total Solar Eclipse. While we didnt get the full show in the bay area, more than a dozen dates were in the so called path of totality. Lets go ahead and show you that path. Cities along roughly a 100 mile wide swat from texas to maine went completely dark today as the moon passed between the sun and the earth. And one of the first major cities in the u. S. To see the total eclipse was dallas, texas. For nearly 4 1 2 minutes, this is what a lot of people out there got to see. And heres what it looks like on the ground as the eclipse was happening. People in terre haute indiana food and i as the movement in front of the sun. You can see crowds going into darkness during the path of totality as it moved across northern texas. Why not say i do on this historic day . A couple in texas got married just as the moon passed in front of the sun. Congratulations to them. The eclipse was also a hot topic for students around the bay area. In a south bay some astronomy professors held class outside to get in on the wonder. Ian cole joined a group of students at san jose state today. Quite an event today. Even though it was only 35 , we saw 35 of that , not this, unfortunately. It was still mparticle incredible to put on the glasses. San jose state brought out some fancies tools. There was a group of students and professors outside of tyler hall. The eclipse peaks. Many other students walking by stopped to take a look. There were special telescopes with solar lenses so they could see and up close shot of the moon partially blocking the sun. They also got a look at the sunspot in the middle of the sun that is larger than earth. There are also some sun spotters so students could see and drive the reflection of what was happening millions of miles away. I am a scifi nerd so seeing this in real life is really cool. To see it in real life with glasses is pretty awesome and the teacher makes it super exciting to learn about. Very special because there wont be another eclipse here for at least another 20 years, right . Yeah. The student you saw there too, she said its crazy to think her future kids will see that one. That made me feel a little bit old. But my kids site at school today. Solar eclipse is happen every year, but the next total Solar Eclipse that america can see wont be until 2044. And the next time california will see a neck total Solar Eclipse instead of a partial will be 2045. That tracks the past and to be in the zone of totality for that one, you will need to head up near the oregon border. One astronomy professor at san jose state says he is already planning for it. We will have one in 2045 , so if you havent booked your tickets already, book your hotels and tickets for 20 years from now. Not sure you can book that white far ahead but he is looking forward to it. We will have the full story coming up tonight at six. 20 years from now. We will see you then. Reporting out on this very program. We will see you in a little bit. Speak up in San Francisco thousand three eclipse glasses were passed out. At least 1200 people watched the partial eclipse there. Inside, they had a live feed from teens they sent to mexico and texas within the zone of totality. A lot of cheering when daylight faded to darkness. Outside the exploratory him people set up telescopes with special filters to offer close images of the sun. One woman brought a homemade camera to get images of the partial eclipse. The pinhole camera but with lenses on to get it a little bit larger. If i had it set up like a pin pinhole camera, it would be really really small. Which looks great, typical to do, i love doing that. But its also fun to get a larger picture. Ian mentioned a little earlier, next time a Solar Eclipse will be visible in the u. S. Is in 20 years. Its going to be a while. The eclipse has come and gone, you might be asking, what should you do with those special glasses you got . States are setting up recycling bins here at libraries, in california you can drop off your eclipse glasses at any worthy parker store. The retailer will collect them through april 30th and then they are going to be donated to astronomers without borders, the organization will then send those classes to schools in latin america where there is a annular eclipse in october. Switching gears now, a frustrating weekend of illegal sideshows spanning across the bay area, including one that brought traffic to a halt on the bay bridge for at least 20 minutes. And when the smoke cleared, multiple people were arrested and at least one person was injured. Video shows fireworks and cars doing donuts in oakland near 42nd and international around 2 00 sunday morning. About 15 minutes after police broke it up, another sideshow took over the intersection at alma and excelsior avenue. Police eventually broke that one up as well only to see the group had to the bay bridge and start their stumps there. That sideshow stopped traffic on west side 80 for about 20 minutes ending with two minors being detained and two adults being arrested. Chp said they told two cars off that bridge. The shows are outright dangerous not only for those involved, but for everyone. This obviously has the potential for a lot of danger, obviously to the participants. The spectators involved. The mass response of our units to a particular location for an improper driving exhibition obviously takes away from those officers being able to respond to more critical emergencies that might be occurring at that time. Officers broke up sideshows earlier near stanford, and in Mountain View where a woman reportedly broke her ankle after she was hit by a car. A Police Standoff triggered a tense start to the week for one trip San Francisco neighborhood, started at 6 30 this morning at apartments, officers responding to a report of a man breaking in and making threats. He barricaded himself in one of those opponents. Officers determined the man may have been experiencing a Mental Health emergency and then they called it the Crisis Negotiation Team to help. Police arrested the man around 2 00 this afternoon. Thankfully, no one was hurt. Lets talk about the concept of Net Neutrality. The idea of an open and accessible internet to everyone has been a political battle ever since the Obama Administration started in the Trump Administration candidates. In about two weeks the federal Communications Commission will vote on restoring Net Neutrality as the law of the land. Today the sec chairwoman came to Santa Clara County to discuss how restoring Net Neutrality impacts Public Safety. Robert handa was there, joins us from that county fire facility. Robert, you got to speak with the chairwoman today. Can you just remind us exactly what Net Neutrality is about . Reporter well, you actually outlined it pretty well. The sort of basic, open free access internet, which used to be the law of the land when the Obama Administration implemented it and basically it says that people should be allowed to go anywhere on the internet, see anything they want to without being influenced or even having the decision made by the Internet Service providers. For example, Internet Service providers are not supposed to get faster speeds to certain things that they want consumers to use, just so that they will use it. And of course as you know, that was knocked down in 2017. So a lot of people have been complaining about it on the consumer level. But potentially, with a Net Neutrality policy would be opening up that access so everybody has equal Internet Access. Got it. Robert, im wondering why did the sec chair choose to come to the south bay today to discuss this vote . Reporter sec chairwoman came to the county Fire Department because they were involved in a 2018 fire and at that time while they were in the midst of fighting the fire they lost their Internet Access. They were not able to use the internet to call an emergency resources and making a makeshift system of mobile phones, personal phones and maybe Service Providers that they didnt have a cap on and they were able to get through that but it kind of shows Public Safety could be effected by Internet Service providers cutting off service just because and it is done automatically for a Firefighting Agency out in the midst of a fire, using an awful lot right away. So it turned out that sort of showed that Public Safety is very vulnerable, very susceptible to that kind of problem. Okay, getting a better idea of the impacts for sure, robert. Lets say the proposal is approved. If and when that happens, what does the sec plan to do . Reporter first of all, i think it will be approved. The current President Administration gets to put several members of the commission, Board Members on there. That is why obama was able to do it when he was in office, that his wife donald trump was able to get rid of them while he was in office and that is why the Biden Administration probably will be able to get this pushed through because they were able to put in their own commissioners and when they do, they will probably try to reconcile, for example, california, the number of states that have their own Net Neutrality policies in place, they will probably is kind of necessary because the internet can become too intertwined in use. Everybody needs it so he should be on the same page. One important thing for people to remember is that the sec will have a complete line for people to send in what problems they are having with the internet so they can have input in the situation as well. Thank you so much for that preview, we will see your story later on in the evening newscast. We will see you then. Reporter thats right. Okay. A new plan to help more than 30 Million People with their Student Loan Debt. President biden says hes got a way to do it. But how will it work . Tom jensen is looking into all of this for us. Also advancing the search for a cure. The all New Discovery researchers made about alzheimers. Before we had to break we want to know what 23 would you like to see in this newscast . I have a pull up on my instagram and you still have a chance to vote for one of the stories you see. Beyonci makes history, superman comics sells for what . And morgan while in the throes and morgan while in the throes chair, ces charges. Fa she got that dress with the extra money she saved using our Brand New Grocery outlet app. Its been really fun seeing what everyones doing with the extra money they save. Nice shirt. Just got back from vacation. A butler . Super nice guy. I got to start using the app. This may impact a lot of the. The white house released a new plan today that looks to relieve Student Loan Debt for about 30 million americans. The question now is whether it will survive challenges from opponents on the right. Nbc bay area tom jensen is life at San Jose State University today. What are you hearing from students there . Reporter good afternoon audrey. We didnt make it back over to san jose state this afternoon due to traffic. We were there earlier today and we did talk to the students who said they are really relieved that the white house is doing Something Else after their earlier efforts were defeated in the courts, the Supreme Court level because they say that their debt is really piling up, 10,000 per year for most of them, per student, even higher in some other institutions and they say that they are worried his latest white house efforts will not defeat the legal challenges. I did talk to a white house advisor who has been working on these, but through a remote interview, he told me that they do believe that these latest programs will be able to survive legal tests because they went over them with legal experts and with financial experts, they went over the Supreme Court decisions with a fine tooth comb and their opinions and built in some bullet proofing to make sure they will defeat those legal challenges, even if they go all the way to the Supreme Court again, audrey . The white house sounding really confident about this , and a lot of people are paying close attention because this will impact so many people who have massive loans, so who would benefit most from these programs . Reporter theres about 4 Million People who would see total Student Debt Relief from these programs, then theres about 25 million more who would get at least partial relief. 10 million of them, as much as 5000 in debt relief, which the advisor told me, it really adds up to try to make a difference for families who are stuck out there and not able to make ends meet when they are facing these loans, many of the loans with really high Interest Rates to begin with, and many of the loans much larger now than they were when they originally took them out. They are really targeting households with blacks and latinos who have student debt loads that are really out of proportion with the education that many of them receive. Some of them at institutions that have a lower value or are not accredited and they are trying to help those people that did not get the benefit really of the education they paid for. Okay. I know youve been busy putting the story together for us looking forward to the story later on in our new cast. Speak up new opposition for the proposed name change of Oakland AirportSan FranciscoCity Attorney david hsu says renaming the airport will only confuse travelers and infringes on the trademark of sfo. He plans to take legal action is Oakland International airport doesnt change course. They recently proposed changing the name to San Francisco bay, Oakland International airport. The idea was to attract more traffic travelers and highlights the geographical significance of flying oak. Booking and airbnb and hawaii may be a thing of the past. Two bills would allow counties across the island to eliminate vacation rentals. It would help alleviate hawaiis housing crisis made worse by the wildfires, but it would make jobs like Property Owners and contractors smaller. Alzheimers has 3 million cases per year. Some groups are hit harder by the disease. Here is the base Marcus Washington with more. The number of alzheimers patients is expected to double within 30 years. One new study seeks to help slow progression of the disease. The hedge study is testing new fda approved drugs. The researchers are looking for people who show no symptoms just yet. Thats because, they say, brain changes related to alzheimers can start up to 20 years sooner. For African Americans and hispanic americans, the impact is almost 3 times as likely. Advocates want to change that by making research and care more available to minority groups. These historically underrepresented groups dont have the same level of actions to care than other populations, the predominant populations. The research was done on alzheimers disease, especially on drugs to treat alzheimers disease have been done by. Predominately on the white population, so we need studies that consider everybody. Had study targets people will between the ages of 55 and 80. You can get stories like this when you join us early for today and the they did we start at 5 00 a. M. On air. We are on 24 7 on roku and other streaming platforms. I am Marcus Washington, back to you. Marcus thanks. The top voted story is chosen by you on the instagram poll. Also coming home. Also coming home. We will show you the greeting with our new Grocery Outlet app, you can see the stores inventory. So you guys really have mangoes in stock . Yup. What about frozen pizza . Here they are. Fresh salmon. Too easy. Coffee . Yup. Here it is, top trending story told by you on my instagram poll. A comic book that originally sold for . 10 back in 1938 just sold for millions of dollars. And here it is. The comic book featuring the first ever appearance of superman. The auction said this comic book sold last week for 6 million at an auction, that makes it the most valuable comic in existence. No word yet on who the buyer is. The 6 million price tag beats the previous comic sale record. Spiderman number one sold two years ago for 5. 3 million. I will post links for the other stories on my instagram. The university of South CarolinaWomens Basketball team returned home today with their trophy in hand. Take a look, they claim the ncaa Womens Basketball championship yesterday. South carolina beat the iowa hawkeyes and their star player Caitlin Clark 8775. South carolinas Third National title in the last seven years all under the same coach, dawn staley. The university of South Carolina is welcoming the team home with a celebration at its arena. A lot of people are very happy celebrating today, first off because of the partial eclipse in the bay area and the nice weather as well. This is a live look in downtown san jose. Clear skies and its just the beginning for a warmup and a change of towards the end. I know, its kind of been an interesting week for us here. We had snow just last week, guys. Lets talk about the conditions and also what we are seeing as far as our current temperatures right now on the map, 71 degrees in san jose, 72 and palo alto, San Francisco mid 60s, 64 degrees and 70s through dublin, 72. But i want to show you the 24 hour temperature change, because i mentioned how we are beginning a warmup and its already pretty noticeable in some sports including in santa rosa and napa. Santa rosa about 10 degrees warmer. Even san jose and palo alto compared to the last 24 hours. We can get a closer look to our weather conditions on satellite radar, you can see clear skies through and through for the entire state of california and we have High Pressure that started to settle in yesterday and it is going to build. As the High Pressure builds, it is going to boost our daytime highs. Lets take a look at what we can expect heading into the overnight lows as well. 71 degrees and jose. The conditions will remain clear and then we have a warm night ahead, probably the warmest we have seen so far. San francisco right now, when speeds 22 Miles Per Hour but the wind speeds are expected to taper off into this evening. 62 degrees, if you notice we did down into those 50s and as we head into tomorrow, we really start to notice that boost, into the upper 70s look at san jose, 77 degrees and through hayward 75, San Francisco 68 and this is just the beginning. We are about seasonable already but as we inch closer towards wednesday, that could be our next warmest day so far. Heres what we can expect for tomorrow and coming up ahead at 5 00, we have comfortable, clearing skies. Inland 80s possible, that does say showers chances. Join us at 5 00 and i will have a complete breakdown of your extended outlook, audrey . Of course the shower chances come right before the weekend. We will see later, thank you. Thank you for joining us at 4 30. 4 30. Je is working on ssth she got that dress with the extra money she saved using our Brand New Grocery outlet app. Its been really fun seeing what everyones doing with the extra money they save. Nice shirt. Just got back from vacation. A butler . Super nice guy. I got to start using the app. Right now at 5 00, donuts on the bay bridge, traffic at a standstill. A sideshow takes over bay area roadways again this week. The fallout and can the chp do anything to stop them . Unified by nature, tens of millions of americans turned their eyes to the skies for the Great American eclipse. The excitement here in the bay area too. A driver is still on the run after a crash that killed a nineyearold girl in the east bay. With the chp says could have saved her life. Good evening, thank you for joining me today at 5 00, i am jessica aguirre. Did you see it . The Great American eclipse has come and gone and it brought millions upon millions of people together across the country to just stare at the sky. Total eclipse moved across 15 states, punching those in the path of totality into darkness. It brought screams and screeches of excitement, delight, and even some tears. Here at home, we only saw about 35 of the sun covered by the moon, but it still drew thousands of spectators outside. Nbcs Sergio Quintana is reporting hopefully with his eclipse glasses. Reporter to look up and see a piece of the site missing is clearly unusual. Is like a cookie. A yellow bacon cookie. Reporter the barrier didnt get to experience a total eclipse, only 34 of the sun was covered by the moon today. It was still something lots of people took time out of their day to watch. The exploratory him passed out 1000 free eclipse viewing glasses and sold about 200 more. At least 1200 people came here to look up at the sky together. Maroon resident angel moore