Finding a balance between new technology and the irreplaceable human touch. Can they coexist . Everyone just put they time and work the community in me literally. What i want to be is be the community in me and bring it right back. Theyre role models recognized as leaders in oakland. Plus have you ever thought with your dream job would be . You might be able to swim your way through the summer. Those swimming pools look so refreshing and its friday. Maybe thats in your future. Im gianna franco. Six figures to take a dip and take pictures . Im in from the neck up for me here. Good morning, everybody, im reed cowan and lets take a live look outside on this friday morning. We are diving in for a friday swim so to speak. And look at that. It looks like that layer of ick is not quite as low the morning as weve seen it in other mornings and jess were smiling back at mother nature. Absolutely. When reed was in las vegas for the super bowl. And reporting live from that pool. That was probably my favorite coverage. That pool was heated. It was so warm. I love that. That makes so much sense and its vegas they do everything extra there. All right. Lets take a quick look outside real fast. They already mentioned it that fog layer is not as low. Actually that marine layer is not as low as what were used to during this mornings setup. Usually around this time the past couple of days weve been dealing with it so low you can barely see Salesforce Tower but Salesforce Tower is 1,000 feet high and we can see the whole thing this morning. Great news there. Lets take a quick look around the bay area as we wake up and head out the door. We are dealing with 0s and 60s currently in the forecast. But just like yesterday, its another beautiful warm day into the afternoon hours. Cloud layer will continue to lift and it will move off to the coastline and breezy Cool Conditions along the coast into this afternoon to kick off the friday in style but for the friend in the east bay anywhere from concord into livermore all the way over into antioch too, its another day of upper 70s in the forecast for us. A similar trend down into the Santa Clara Valley too where as we wake up this morning that cloud layer is holding on tight above us, but surface level visibility, its just fine. So getting to work or school this morning, before we head into a beautiful weekend is going to be perfect. Theres plenty of events happening, for example, concord has the fair going on this weekend. In San Francisco, its bay to breakers this weekend and i have your forecast for you coming up for both of those in just a little bit. But for now, lets check the roads outside because at least its clear in some spots. G. But is the fog impacting anyone . Not necessarily on that ride along highway 1 or 280 which is good news but maybe on some of bay area bridges. I did are a little bit of that moisture this morning on my windshielding in to work. So a little bit of that happening on the roadways and just keep that in mind. San mateo bridge, looking good so far no delays there. And looking at the Golden Gate Bridge, fog, not too bad. Were actually moving okay with good visibility heading into San Francisco right now. So not a bad commute there and in fact its friday light and most of the major freeways now. Theres a lot going on this weekend. That includes a weekend closure along highway 37. Well have more on that coming up in just a bit. But you have got that and you have also got bay to breakers happening in San Francisco so theres going to be some street closures there as well. Reed . Traffic with g and g means go in the morning. The man convicted of attempting the kidnap former House Speaker nancy pelosi and attacking her husband in that hammer attack will learn his fate in federal court today. David depape was already found guilty and admitted to breaking into the home in San Francisco back in october of 2022. Prosecutors asked the judge to lock him up for four decades which would mean that depape faces being a prisoner into his 70s. Second trial in state court will start in coming weeks. In berkeley, police cleared out a group of pro Palestinian Protesters who occupied the socalled anna head complex. After an hours long standoff riot police busted down the doors of the closed building and arrested 12. The building is now barricaded but this time by police. For a third time, uc regents kicking the can down the road to restrict employees from posting personal views on campus web pages. A t the meeting in merced while protesters camped outside, regents faced criticism by pro palestinian activists that to not allow professors to post is an incursion on educator free speech. Well a vote to allow educators to post on socalled secondary sites will now happen in july. Update in the world of tech. Cruise reached a multimillion Dollar Settlement with a woman who was hit and dragged by one of the vehicles back in october. You remember this one. Now the Autonomous Car company is paying as much as 12 million to settle that dispute. California dmv suspended the driverless taxi license in San Francisco. Cruise released a statement saying their hearts are with the pedestrian and they hope for her continued recovery. Well, this week, the Artificial Intelligence company very tone announced a partnership to protect the Digital Asset of performers name and image and likeness. Now it comes after the growing reach of ai was a major concern during contract negotiations with the unions for actors and writers last year. Wow, caa gets involved they mean business. Shawn chitnis here with us now and you have the perspective of a voice actor based here in the bay. And the continuing challenges that ai presents to actors who need to have that autonomy in reality. Reporter its something that weve certainly been following and on this particular week, we also want to emphasize that openai showed us the new developments with chatgpt where there are improvements in the voice. You can really have a conversation. And so thats why the actors that we are talking to particularly one voice actor based here in the bay area, says that whenever it comes to advancements in ai, she proceeds with caution. Listen, well, well ill show you how to reporter black top hoops is a vr video game now available and thats the voice of joy ofhudu you hear in one of the games players. The full release the week for play on vr headsets comes years in the making. Well after joy voiced this character. Whether you are recording inperson or at home, voiceover takes time. Reporter as a professional voice actor based in the bay area, shes keeping a close eye on the latest developments for all things ai. I was interested and excited a little bit nervous. Scared. And as someone who has publicly spoken about ai and my concerns as a voice actor, i now a lot of the alarm bells would be kind of winging as well. Reporter this weeks announcement that very tone and caa have created the vault to store and protect Digital Assets caught he attention. Shes optimistic about steps like this to secure any work that use hearse voice. They can come in and they can make sure that their scans and their recordings, everything is being done is theirs. Reporter the two Companies Say the vault will ensure an artists voice is only used when they want it to be. And theyre getting paid for it. Im okay. Reporter but voice actors like joy say Cyber Security is a growing threat for her line of work. And its too early to know if anyone can truly store voices safely. There are always legal and ethical concerns with ai and voice work. And now there could be an issue of access. Who will be able to use this technology to protect their voice . Anytime that i see developments in ai particularly as they relate to voice, it concerns me for independent artists. For those of us who are professional working artists and actors. Sorry dude, i cant hear you. Reporter joy says shes fortunate in these Uncertain Times to keep getting more work. Whether its in the animated series the sales off or the independent hand drawn film beverly bunny. Murder, what murder . When was the murder . Reporter but beyond the concerns over ai creating an unfair landscape for voice artists, she also worries about it moving the craft away from the art of performing. We voice act not because we just want to receive a check. Every now and again though the check is nice. Voice acting isnt the most lucrative industry and not the most lucrative kind of acting per se. We do it because we love the performance. Reporter so some important take aways for all of us as we continue to follow these developments closely. We got to be more critical of all of the content we see now and question specifically what we are hearing. Right . Because audio is going to be the easiest to manipulate. But also artists like joy want to point out hey, i am able to thrive in the bay area doing this kind of work. So at least we can say that, you know, theres that entertainment scene here. We are not necessarily in l. A. s shadow. There are so much opportunity for someone like here. Voice work especially we saw the advancement happen during covid. When we were forced to do so much at home. Voice actors now have their own studios and you used have to go somewhere to record all this stuff. I feel like that part of technology was great. Adding the ai to it, makes me a little concerned. And i hope it works out because it really is a great industry and a lot of fun. Im glad to see shes doing a little pushback and my goodness making it look good. Talk about the 80s cool story. Can we see the story once an how long. We will. Thank you, shawn. Coming up, Opening Doors in oakland. A story to fill up your heart and make you know and believe once again people are good. Plus, storms sweep through the south. The frightening videos coming into the newsroom this morning from texas. And heres a look outside before we head to break. This is the ooh look at this the top of mount diablo looking over towards clayton and you can kind of make it out a little bit there. Just underneath that cloud cover. Well be right back. My psoriasis was all over. Then psoriatic arthritis. 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Because everyone everyone just put they time and work in me. The community in me literally. What i want to do is be the community in me and bring it back out to the world. Reporter royal is a senior at Oakland Tech High School and one of the recipients of the oakland promise scholarship and one of more than 1100 students who are getting a sure of nearly a 5 million to help them go to college. For royal its a dream come true to be the first in his family to get a College Education. My dad didnt have much. My mom doesnt have much and my family didnt have much. I just got i learned from their mace takes. Reporter only receive Financial Support but e resources like mentors to guide them in the next chapter of their lives. Oakland promise was created in 2016 as a way to reinvest in the citys youth. Really our students in oakland, they are the stars. They are excellent. And they have the opportunity to really change the trajectory of of their zip code. Reporter royal will be going to csu north ridge in the fall to study business and marketing with an emphasis on fashion. Hes already had a chance to be a part of new york fashion week. And hit the runway. Hes on his way to turning his dream into reality. But he also knows his journey is not just about him. I have been thinking about too much and make me want to shed a tear. My little cousin and nephew is going to look at me. Reporter and royal is creating the path for his family to now follow in his footsteps. And we can see and celebrate oakland promise. They tell us in keeping their promise to oakland, theyve helped more than 1,000 families with infants lifted up and supported tens of thousands of elementary and middle and High School Students and can boast more than 2,000 bridges built to College Education and less than a decade of service. And that indeed, we say is keeping a promise. Look at all the kiddos. I love it. Thats the future right. So many are going to the next phase in their life but you do learn a lot about the amazing kids and organizations who you know, wasnt so easy to get there. But there are communities and people who help and look at that. Yeah. Now we just need the Business World to look at that and see that asset and bring them on in. Make a space for them. And i hope that happens. Good kids out there. Lets take a live look outside, hey, its friday morning and yay. Im so ready for it. And it was a little misty on my drive in. Of course jess will have a look at whats in store for you for the weekend. But first, jessica, you have got some pretty incredible video coming out of texas this morning. Absolutely. G, a powerful storm system pummeled the area of houston leaving trail of destruction. And the violent hurricaneforce winds actually slammed the city. Bringing in flash flooding and tornado warnings and knocking out power to thousands of people after pummeling power transmitters. And the building partially collapsed right behind me. That was just the site of it. That was just being torn away. Were hearing at least four people were killed in the storm and one of them died after being hit by a falling crane and check out this video behind me of the downtown skyscrapers. They were just complete lebron out. It was the side of building that had the damage too. Two men were inside of that highrise and they described this chaos and how they may say they actually saved a mans life. Were in the restroom and we hear everything screaming and coming towards the restroom and theres like dust blowing down from the ceiling tiles. A guy who came running in and had a gash on his arm about eight inches and we had to put a tourniquet on it. The as were in houston playing the astros and the heavy rain somehow made it into the minute maid park. Now it blew through the cracks of the retractable roof across the outfield and despite that happening the game was played as normal. So lots happening right now just in the region. Thats one of the big weather headlines for statewide story but as we take a look statewide stories. But as we look at whats happening for us here in the bay area, our weather headlines are a lot more detailed when it comes to a calm and mild forecast for us right around the corner. Now as we take a look outside on morning like this, it is a mild weather pattern for us. We have daytime highs once again sitting right where we should be for this time of year, 60s and 70s in the forecast widespread throughout the bay area. Some 50s trickled in along the coastline. Highs are going to remain right where they should be for this time of year heading into the weekend and we dont have a lot of changes around the corner. Lets dive into the weekends forecast and starting off with tomorrow and of course sunday too. Beautiful conditions for us as we head into the next couple of days. For antioch if you are planningen heading over to the Contra Costa County fair, lots of things happening widespread throughout the bay area. Like bay to breakers too in San Francisco. So if you are thinking of heading out for that or trying to figure out what outfit to wear and plan ahead. Keep in mind were expecting 50s in the forecast on sunday just in the city of San Francisco. Today, were sitting in the 60s. Thats going to be a beautiful setup to kick this weekend off. Its still cool and cloudy right now throughout the bay area. But heading into the afternoon, just like clockwork, all week long, weve been seeing that cloud layer break apart just around 10 00, 11 00. Pull back along the coast. And suddenly were left with sunny skies and 70s and 60s anywhere from napa down into areas like livermore. Live in the Santa Clara Valley, this was what were waking up to right now. See all the puffy clouds kind of just blanketing us right now . That layer is going to start pulling back just like the past couple o