Getting off completely scotfree. Were jammed full and we have no room. San francisco animal shelters pushed to the brink with many reaching capacity for the number of animals they can take. How you can help. Its still a lot of beauty and still a lot of positivity here, even everything thats happening, change is happening. Businesses in oakland bouncing back as Restaurant Week takes over the city. How owners are coming up with special ideas to get the community out and about. Hard to give it up you know. One on probably do it until they kick me out. [ laughter ] hes seen almost every home game from the best seat in the house. Meet the warriors official clock keeper whos been with the team for over 60 years. I mean, 60 years. 60. Thats what it said. Im gianna franco. Can you imagine . Being that same position. Yeah, you have seen so much when it comes to basketball history. A living legend. I feel like people dont stay in jobs anymore and thats the issue right . Its like contract to contract or theres always Something Better out there. So wow. Good for him. 60 years. Im Nicole Zaloumis and lets take a live look outside on this friday morning. Keep in mind, it looks beautiful. This is the jewel box of San Francisco. But it is a first alert weather day. And meteorologist Jessica Burch joins us now. Jess, those high winds have really caused just havoc in some issues over the barium when i was driving over the bridge yesterday, my car was shifting. I know, you have to be careful today nicole and in san mateo county, those strong winds actually caused a tree to land across power lines on highway 35 shutting down the road yesterday afternoon. This happened between highway 9 and alpine road and we talked about it yesterday. These strong winds could cause downed trees and Power Outages and were still seeing the effects today. That wind event is not over just yet and as we take a look out on the first alert weather day as the highlighted zones and counties on the map behind me. We are still under a wind advisory until 11 00 a. M. Issued by the National Weather service National Weather service, where we can still see downed trees into the next couple of hours. Now this does expire just around lunchtime but watch what happens up in the north bay throughout the next couple of hours. Sonoma, im talking to you. All the way down into areas like petaluma and 40 to 50mileperhour wind gusts are currently happening and will continue to watch that in the 7 00 hour. By 9 00 it doesnt let up anytime soon and notice areas in the east bay too like danville still dealing with about a 30mileperhour wind gust just into the 9 00, 10 00 hour. Its slowly starting to die down though as we head into the afternoon hours. All the way into 5 00 we go, thats when we finally capita break off in the east bay and still a little bit breezy in the north bay but this is the big weather story for us as head into this next couple of hours. Its friday, many of us have the early weekend. And if we do, of course you want to take it slow out there especially on the roads like nicole mentioned. And be very careful in the dark hours for any downed trees and of course were keeping a close eye on the Power Outages maps as well. Send it over to you, g. All right, jess, thank you. Taking a live look right now in interstate 680 this morning in pleasanton. Caltrans has closure in place and something thats going to be there throughout the weekend. Southbound stretch of 680 for the entire weekend so that crews can replace repavement thats falling apart. Starting at 9 00 tonight, 680 will be closed from the 580 connector to koopman road. Various on ramps will be shut down also. Excuse mement 680 southbound is expected to reopen at 4 00 a. M. On monday. All right, lets take a look at traffic now as you head across some of the bay area bridges. The Golden Gate Bridge is moving along pretty well. But again, we are talking about those windy conditions out there. So just be careful as you work your way across the span. Things are certainly going to be a little gusty as you head through there. San mateo bridge as well as Altamont Pass commute, maybe busy as well or a little slower just because of those windy conditions. So just be extra careful especially if you are traveling in a highprofile vehicle. That is something to think about. But its friday. So thats one of our headlines right . It is friday light. And thats something we can hopefully enjoy as we get into our weekend. Nicole . Well, gianna, protesting is a long time part of bay area culture and weve seen a lot of it already this year including criticism of how people go about it. Dozens of Palestinian Protesters were arrested last november for blocking the upper deck of the bay bridge for hours. It didnt just keep people from work, it even delayed lifesaving operations as organs for transplant were caught in the gridlock. But when the da announced charges, reaction was split. As Wilson Walker reports, the 78 protesters facing a possible trial scored a major legal victory instead. [ cheering and applause ] reporter 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 das retaliatory charges were an attempt to put a chill on mobilization. Reporter for some kind of precedent here 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 gas cone reduced the charges to simple traffic citations, saying it was in the interest of free speech. Then a judge just threw those charges out wholesale. So while blocking the bridge is illegal, theres plenty of room for discretion. Yes, the government does have certain amount of prosecutorial discretion in terms of whether its going to arrest people or just say go home and allow people to leave. Theres all sorts of latitude and discretion that creeps in at various points of the process. But certainly in terms of the First Amendment question, they are permitted to say either move to the sidewalk or you have to stop. Stop your protest. Reporter the protesters initially asked for the charges to be dropped completely. And there was a great deal of anger directed towards District AttorneyBrooke Jenkins for her pursuel of charges at all. One of the 78 defended the protest saying the movement is being persecuted and misrepresented. I still stand behind what we have done and that we needed to make the statements that we needed to do in order to make our voices loud and clear. This movement is much larger than whats being perceived on the media. And i hope that you a as a reporter can reflect that in your own reporting. The das office says that the protesters are arrested again in the next two months, the deal could be off the table and criminal proceedings could be on the way. Time now for a look at mornings other top stories. The man accused of killing tech executive bob lee is expected back in court today. Nima momeni will face a judge who will decide whether to keep his trial in San Francisco. His defense argues that holding the trial in the city would be unfair because lee was wellknown here. Today, attorneys will also learn how long it may take to get evidence off of lees newly released phone. San franciscos civic Center Recently viewed as the epicenter of the citys drug and homeless crisis is now making a turn in the right direction. Now during the day, you might see a family or a group of skaters rolling and strolling through. But at night, police say its a different story. Sfpd gave us this video showing what illegal vendors are hawking at u. N. Plaza when the sun goes down. Everything from cell known cases to baseball cards to bags of candy and even nasal spray. Officers say theyre working with public works and Public Health to give out citations and impound what vendors are selling. I think were going to have to give you a citation for 250. And impound all of the items that you dont have proof of purchase for. All right, so its illegal in the city of San Francisco to be vending without a permit. Are you aware of that . Well, police say they started doing more nighttime patrols around u. N. Plaza last month and have plans to keep going. Nicole . Time now 5 08. 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Overcrowding. Theyve reached capacity for the number of dogs they can take in. Yeah, and a major reason why theyre dealing with this challenge is we are 3 million spay neuters behind as a country. A delay that built up during the pandemic. Well, Shawn Chitnis joins us live outside animal care and control and how you can help shelters right now. Good morning to you once again, shawn. Reporter good morning. And its really important to emphasize that delay of millions of spayed and neutered animals not happening has now led to a lot of breeding happening backyard across california. And so now when we look at this issue of being overcapacity at shelters like this, theres a lot of layers to this phish. First and foremost there are more animals coming in but there are also staying at the shelter longer than usual. And there arent the options to move those animals to other shelters like you normally could. So at this point, it really is calling on the public to do whatever you can, staff here tell us that even if they can delay one dog from coming into their shelter, it will make a difference. Its easy for these faces inside San Francisco animal care and control to steal your heart. But right now, they need some extra love. For over capacity. So we have animals that are available for adoption. We would love for people to some and adopt them. But were also packed full of stray animals and a group we call custody animals. Reporter virginia donahue is the executive director of sf animal care and control. She explains that custody animals are those at the shelter because of a family emergency. Normally we hand deliver about 500 of the cases a year. Last year, we handled over 800. And this year, were on track to repeat that number. So thats way, way more animals than were used to. Reporter only adds to the increase theyre seeing from a drop in spayed and neutered animals. During the apartment, Veterinary Care went down and surgeries were delayed. Its not just affecting dogs. Theyre taking in twice the number of bunnies they would see over six months and even more guinea pigs as well. So theyre asking anyone thinking of surrendering an animal to check for additional help first. Were jammed full. We have no room. But if you are having difficulty like maybe theres some way we can help you and your pet stay together. Reporter its worth remembering the animals are here because there was an issue with the people who were taking care of them. Virginia says theres nothing wrong with the animals. And you can take the word of any of her employees who brought at least one of them home. I dont think you can find anybody in the building who hasnt adopted from her. Reporter keeps her going even in tough times. Purpose driven work that can truly have a positive impact on everyone. You get to help a lot, a lot of San Francisco animals. And in conjunction with that, you also end up helping a lot of people. Reporter so some of the resources that are available to help families from having to surrender their animal include the low cost vet clinic that they do on a regular basis here, they also have a quarterly vaccine clinic and then theres also a pet food bank. Thats one way they hope families wont have to vender the animal. On the other side if you are looking to adopt, right now they are waiving the fees to adopt guinea pigs as well as any dogs that are five months or older. Nicole and gianna, back to you. I didnt know that they had a pet food bank. Thank you so much, shawn. Such useful information to help families with animals. Our furry friend. I know. And so many of us love our puppies and cats and but a guinea pig . Okay. Maybe. Thats a possibility too. All right, lets get a live look outside on this friday morning and yay, we made it to the weekend. We can all take a sigh and a ahh. A big sigh of relief. And think hey its going to be nice. But is it . Because its a first alert weather day. With all these windy conditions. The winds are really whipping up around the bay area. Yesterday especially, jessica, and also in parts of southern california. Uhhuh. The strong gusts caused some problems in los angeles. Yeah, gianna. The winds were actually Strong Enough to take down a big rig and knocked it off the side of the road and winds exceeded about 7 , 80 Miles Per Hour yesterday in l. A. Toppling trees and power cables and of course even that semitruck too. And it was a gusty day widespread throughout the state of california and ill be honest for you i was flying for the National Guard last night the helicopter. It was so hard just to hold on to the controls and keep that level and straight flight. And that was in higher elevated areas and were talking about 2,000, 3,000 feet. Back here at the surface level 0mileperhour winds there morning as we wake up and head out the door. And areas like sonoma, 40mileperhour winds from petaluma down into Stinson Beach. And it is breezy in San Francisco but a lot lighter compared to the north bay and as we head into the east bay, danville around 45mileperhou r wind gusts right now. And were going to continue to watch these models stay strong as we head into the 9 00, 10 00 hour. Notice those winds really take a while to die down. Not until the afternoon we see a big shift in the system and its actually going to see were going to see lighter winds close to around 15, 20mileperhour winds in the evening hours tonight and this matches up with what the National Weather service says too. When it comes to the wind advisory expiring closer to around lunchtime. Now the winds have been whipping up a lot of that pollen. So yesterday and today we were in the medium to high category. Saturday and sunday in the medium category for the most part. Just keep that in mind. Thats what we have this weekend. But theres plenty of fun things happening for us this weekend. The st. Patricks day parade and of course wings over solano which my unit is actually going to take the blackhawks out there too. And do a static display. Say hi to them. Were expecting 70s in the forecast over attrist air force base heading into the weekend. And were actually seeing a similar trend today too. I mean, daytime highs this afternoon are sitting mostly in the 70s and 60s in the forecast for us. I want to update that map in just a second because i didnt show correctly but a live look as we wake up and head out the door this morning all the way into the santa clara valley, its gusty as can be. The Santa Cruz Mountains also seeing some of the windiest conditions that weve had in quite some time. You can see that camera shaking just right there. More on that coming up in a bit and show you the 7 day forecast just in a little bit too. Because theres actually some rain in the 7 day models so the dry break is coming to an end pretty soon. Well have more on that. For now over to you, g. Enjoy the dry roadways then jess. Lets take a live look this morning though at interstate 680 over in pleasanton. Theres a repaving project that will be happening this weekend and it will be blocking the southbound lanes. Caltrans says the closure will extend from the 580 connector to koopman road. No southbound traffic will be allowed from 9 00 p. M. That starts tonight until 4 00 a. M. On monday. Caltrans is planning to have detours in place during the shutdown. But if you are familiar with this closure, you know that you