This a full victory. The bay bridge 78 walked out of the courtroom to the cheering crowd that had packed the hallway to support them, the outcome in the words of one organizer, a complete vindication and victory. Essentially the judge dismissed our case as of may 15th with a diversion offer of five Hours Community service and a little under 4,500 in restitution. I think that the d. A. s retaliatory charges were an attempt to put a chill on globalization. Reporter as for some kind of precedent, we have seen incidents like this before. In 2016 protesters with black lives matter took over the bridge and the Highway Patrol arrested 25 people. District attorney George Gascon reduced the charges to simple traffic citations saying it was in the interest of free speech. Then a judge threw those charges out wholesale. So while blocking the bridge is illegal, there is plenty of room for discretion. Yes. The government does have a certain amount of prosecutorial discretion in terms of whether its going to arrest people or say go home. Theres all sorts of latitude and discretion that creeps in at various parts of the process, but in terms of the 1st amendment question , they are permitted to say move to the sidewalk or stop the protest. Reporter the protesters asked for the charges to be dropped completely and there was a great deal of anchor directed towards District AttorneyBrooke Jenkins for her pursuing the charges at all. One of the protesters saying the movement has been persecuted and represented. I still stand behind what we have done and that we needed to make the statements we needed to do in order to make our voices loud and clear. This movement is much larger than what is being perceived on the media and i hope that you as a reporter can reflect that in your own reporting. Reporter there you go. Victory in the minds of supporters. Weve just heard from the District Attorneys office. Im going to read this. Each individual is also ordered to pay restitution to an identified victim who needed to be evacuated from the bay bridge. The total restitution amount to be paid will be set at a future date. If anyone involved is arrested in the next several months, the deal is off and the District Attorney can resume prosecution. One of the speakers said, we may be off the hook, but the District Attorney is not, sort of the suggestion there that theres now a political price to pay for the District Attorney for having prosecuted these cases in the first place. Add that to the political mix as we move towards november here in San Francisco, but there you have it, the bay bridge 78 case effectively resolved for now. Wilson, the protesters are agreeing they wont go back on the bay bridge again . Reporter i dont think anybody said that today. I think they see this as sort of just they made their statement. They are not going to be prosecuted. I preferenced 2016 to say that we have seen this before and folks doing that and not getting prosecuted to the extent of the law. We have seen that before as well. Today was not exactly out of the ordinary. The District Attorneys office did achieve some type of agreement in the end. Well see how that unfolds i guess in the couple months ahead. Thank you, wilson walker. Novembers protest was one of a series of bay area demonstrations calling for ceasefire in gaza, including yesterdays protest that shut down the International Terminal at sfo. Last month hundreds of protesters marched through the streets of San Francisco and onto highway 101 and a few days prior to that protesters briefly shut down the Golden Gate Bridge calling for a ceasefire in gaza. Turning to weather, a live look outside on this first alert weather day, those whipping winds causing some issues around the bay area along with the bad hair day for a lot of people. Heres highway 35 in San Mateo County where a tree came down on some power lines between highway 9 and alpine road. Heres the pg e outage map. The green dots show scattered outages across the region. My hair actually moved. I have a lot of gel in my hair. You know the winds were strong if that happened. Okay, paul, ryan clearly does not like my hair today. It looks great. When does it stop . Its just extra volume, liz. You got a free blowout courtesy of mother nature. Thanks a lot. Youre welcome. Lets look at whats happening out there now. With the windy conditions, we had clear skies and warm temperatures, a typical spring day even though its technically winter until tuesday. Wind speeds currently 15 to 25 Miles Per Hour for sustained winds across the bay area, but the gusts are more attention grabbing. We have those gusts registering in the 25 to 35mileanhour range, even 36mileanhour wind gust at oakland airport. These are the wind gusts close to sea level where most of the density populated parts of the bay area are. Up in elevation the strongest gusts have been there even up to 70 miles an hour. The winds will go up and down the next 24 hours, but they dont head down for good until tomorrow Late Afternoon. The wind advisory for the higher terrain continues through 11 00 a. M. Tomorrow. It has been allowed to expire for some of the valley locations around the bay area, but its going to be blustery throughout the day, but the weekend looks fantastic, details coming up in a few minutes. Thank you. Two hotels and some People Living in the tenderloin are suing the city, saying theyre using their neighborhood as a containment zone for the citys drug trade and other vices. They arent looking for monetary damages, not looking for money. Instead the federal complaint says they want the city to treat the tenderloin like they do all the other neighborhoods in San Francisco. Specifically, they want drug dealers, users, people dealing with mental illness, and other unhoused individuals cleared from the sidewalks. We reached out to the city for a response to the suit but have not heard back. Just where will the oakland as play ball after this coming season . Well have to wait a bit longer for that answer. The San Francisco chronicle reports talks between the team and east bay leaders ended today without any agreement to extend the teams lease. The as need to find a place to go while they await the completion of their las vegas stadium. Thats not expected until 2028. The team is considering oakland, salt lake city, and sacramento in the negotiations. Oakland is reportedly pushing the as to sell back a 50 stake in the coliseum site. Talks are expected to continue. Oaklands foodie culture is on full display with the kickoff today of oakland restaurant week. Just in time for dinner. For the next ten days participating restaurants will offer a special menu with items that celebrate special cuisine and culture. For restaurant owners, its a week to showcase their best. For us thats the benefit is we get a chance to kind of just show off what we do to hopefully a new guest or new clientele and as well as bring back some old ones that maybe havent come in a year. Participating restaurants will run the gamut from homie neighborhood momandpop stops to michelinrated establishments. Restaurant week comes as Oakland Police are warning people about an uptick in robberies and the targets are very specific. And the whole thing took place in like ten seconds. I was screaming. At 5 30 well hear from the victim of a frightening attack and let you know how police are telling people to protect themselves. A Peninsula Community is banding together to track down a hitandrun driver who struck a beloved mom, businesswoman and cyclist in baywood park. The woman was riding her bike when she was hit. Community members are teaming up with authorities to find the suspect who left the woman lying in the street severely injured. Reporter were trying to find the driver of a gray vehicle who struck her, stuck around for a few minutes, attempted at one point to pick her up and she said, no. Im injured. Im seriously hurt. Dont touch me. Good samaritans showed up and they came to her aid. She was eventually taken to the hospital. She suffered a fractured lower back, but thankfully, is expected to recover. Im anne makovec with new security video of an officerinvolved shooting in vallejo in which an 18yearold was shot and injured. Police just released it. Drop the gun. Ill shoot you. Drop the gun. We froze that video the moment before the officer from the American Canyon pd pulled the trigger. The 18yearold immediately collapses to the ground. He did survive and was taken to the hospital. This all happened on january 11th in front of a house on sousa way and Gateway Drive in vallejo. The 18yearold was a passenger in a car that took off from a traffic stop on highway 29. Officers tracked down that car to this neighborhood. They say the man got out of the car, took off on foot and the shooting occurred. You heard the officer telling him to drop the gun. In the video you can make out what appears to be a handgun thrown by the teenager the moment hes shot in the back by the officer. Police say that was one of two guns that the 18yearold had on him. Still ahead, yet another plane experiencing problems, the latest case happening in the bay area as the Airline Industry faces growing scrutiny. Another measles case reported in Northern California, the announcement from health officials. Do active Shooter Drill this just in. The father of the Michigan School shooter was just found guilty of involuntary manslaughter. James crumbley was accused of buying the gun used by his son to kill four students and injure seven other people in 2021. This is the second conviction against the teens parents who failed to secure the gun at their home and did nothing to address the teens signs of mental turmoil. Crumbley was convicted on all four counts of involuntary manslaughter. That carries a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison. Its an unfortunate reality that active Shooter Drills have become commonplace at many schools, but now theres growing concern that those drills themselves are traumatizing students. Danya bacchus shows us what a california lawmaker is trying to do about it. Shots fired come from the southeast of the complex. Reporter active Shooter Drill simulations are taking place in schools across the country. White male, black shirt, tan hat. Reporter this one in corona, california, was planned in advance and used Law Enforcement and volunteers to mimic a real life situation, but its drills like these that California Assembly member chris ward says without a proper playbook can go too far. You would see these really wild stories about a principal who decided that it would be a good idea to have fake gunmen come onto campus or asking students to portray victims lying in blood. Reporter ward has proposed legislation that would standardize how California Public schools conductive Shooter Drills, similar to the way fire and earthquake drills are regulated. Were seeing some of the data come in from National Studies that these activities are causing more trauma, more harm than good. Reporter according to the Education Commission of the state, at least 45 states require schools to conduct safety drills and its mandatory local Law Enforcement be involved in at least 17 states. Wards bill includes among other things prohibiting the use of simulated gunfire, parental notification that a drill is taking place, and an optout provision for parents who do not want their student to participate. The simulation might be a good idea maybe for the older kids, not so much for the younger kids, but at the same time i feel with my kids i want to maintain i want to keep it real with them. I want to let them know hey, this is the reality. Reporter indianas governor just signed a School Safety bill that no longer requires students to participate in drills that include prop guns, pellet guns, and simulations of gunshots and injuries. Organizations like every town for gun safety recommend against active Shooter Drills altogether. They say students, educators and staff have experienced stress and sometimes lasting trauma. In Stanislaus County a case of measles was found from a child who was unvaccinated and recently traveled out of the country and another case was reported in sacramento. A young child tested positive for measles last week, may have exposed hundreds of people at the uc davis medical center. The hospital is contacting anyone who was at the Emergency Department on march 5th between 12 00 p. M. And 5 00 p. M. Officials say as many as 300 people were exposed. Measles is highly contagious. Symptoms include fever, cough, runny nose, and a rash. Health officials urge people to get vaccinated. Its being called the biggest ever cybersecurity attack on americas healthcare system. Now the Biden Administration is opening up a probe to determine the full extent of this breach. Three weeks ago hackers shut down a United HealthGroup Medical payment processor, driving the nations largest healthcare amount system offline, exposing patient data, and also squeezing the Bank Accounts of hospitals, pharmacies, and practices. Our patients that cant come here for their routine things, their sore throats, their cough, their Blood Pressure checks, where are they going to go . Cybercriminals might not set out to be murderers, but its not a stretch to say they could cost peoples lives. A russian speaking Ransomware Group known as black cat claimed responsibility for the attack. The federal probe will also look into whether United Health has been complying with federal data privacy laws. Highway 90 in saratoga is back open after a mudslide forced the roads to close down a couple weeks. The mudslide was a result of a series of storms that hit the south bay the beginning of march. In Southern California the wind was Strong Enough to take down a big rig, knocked it off the side of the road. Winds exceeded 70 to 80 Miles Per Hour in l. A. Today, toppling trees, power cables, and even this semi truck. They were really whipping around all across the state, especially in the bay area, paul. This morning you could feel it in your car when you were driving into work. Yeah. Weve been able to hear it whistling through the air ducts in the studio as well. Its going to be breezy tonight and much of tomorrow, but the winds will be dying down less than 24 hours from now. The highest gusts have been on top of the peaks around the bay area, 72mileanhour gust recorded on top of mount diablo, 43 miles an hour in the oakland hills, 31mileanhour gust in san jose, 37 at sfo. Thats enough to move you around on the road and it has resulted in some sporadic power outages. Lets look out from the mark hopkins hotel, bright blue skies. Well feel windy conditions around most of friday. The winds start to die down mid to Late Afternoon the the temperatures will continue to climb a good 5 to 10 degrees above average tomorrow, lots of sunshine continuing into the weekend, gradually some additional cloud cover returning with marine influence the first half of next week. Hourbyhour wind gusts this evening through saturday morning, you can see all of the colored tiles on our grid are in the first half of that time frame. This is when well see the greatest potential for wind gusts over 30 to 40 miles an hour, but the winds die down tomorrow afternoon. By tomorrow night well be back to very light breezes. Thats the case as we head into st. Patricks day weekend as well. The good news is the humidity hasnt been bone dry, 25 to 30 relative humidity levels today. The humidity doesnt recover much overnight. Usually overnight humidity levels rise to 70, 80, even 90 this time of year. Thats not going to happen overnight. At least they wont be reaching the critical levels, lower than 20 or down to around 10 . Thats when the fire threat really goes up, but at their lowest tomorrow the humidity drops down to about 25 or so and thats the point at which the winds will be dying down. The ingredients are not coming together for significant fire threat. With the clear skies overhead thanks to the offshore winds, full capacity for electric power generation, courtesy of solar electricity. Temperatures will reach into the 70s again tomorrow. Well be at the top of the scale friday and again saturday. The wind has been pretty efficient with the warm temperatures at dispursing a lot of pollen across the bay area. Well be at the top of the scale in that regard into early next week. Make sure youre stocked up on tissues and allergy medication. Clear skies looking out from salesforce tower, upper 60s to around 70 degrees, 70 in san jose and santa rosa, temperatures later tonight with the wind stirring the atmosphere around, a few upper 40s, a lot of low 50s to begin the day tomorrow and then temperatures warm up. Lets look at tomorrows highs. Temperatures will rise into the neighborhood of 70 degrees, some spots into the 70s. For some reason these are yesterdays forecast temperatures. This is where we