Or business family. Top republicans in the bay area making the case to voters. They say it is time for political change in california. It was a bad experience. Nothing good about it. Honoring a survivor. A world war ii veteran from benicia gets a permanent thank you for his service. Good morning. Today is sunday, may 19th. It is great to have you with us. I am max darrow. We are two hours away from one of the biggest events of the year in San Francisco. Get ready for bay to breakers. Thousands of costumed runners like these folks and likely some without anything on it all, will take over the streets for the race from the embarcadero to ocean beach. A seven mile race snakes tough the city and starts near maine and howard streets and end at the great highway. Several entrances to Golden Gate Park are closed and muni will be rerouted. For what we can expect outside today, we will tell you that. Lets get over to first alert meteorologist, darren peck. It will be different today. We are starting sunday morning with less in terms of the marine layer. We still have some in the interior valleys through sonoma and napa, but this day is different because there will be more sunshine. We look at the forecast, bay to breakers happening today and it will be a very nice day. You will not be battling much of the marine layer gray. The wind will be lighter as you approach the coast. I we will time that out. Some people take longer to finish. I will have the specific forecast coming up. Taking a live look at oakland this morning. Many People Living in the town are fed up with what they say is out of control crime. It begs the question, what can they do about it . Some people blame mayor sheng thao for the problems. Now the group behind the effort to recall the mayor says, they have surpassed the 25,000 signatures needed to get it on the ballot. That is a month ahead of schedule. The signatures now go to the county registrar to be validated. All of this comes after Alameda County supervisors chose not to call a special election for the potential recall of District Attorney pamela price. The recall will be on the november general election ballot. Those supporting the recall , were pushing for a special election. Arguing the county will be safer , the sooner she is out of office. Across the bay, mayor breed kicked off for Reelection Campaign in San Francisco. She has been in office for the past six years. She is pitching herself to voters with a focus on crime and safety and revitalizing downtown. What we are trying to do is keep up the momentum of the work that we have already done to get to this point. We did not just clean up the streets for the apec summit and not just cleaning up the street for Reelection Campaigns. We are making sure we are doing everything we can, as we always have to lead the city. To manage through challenging times. The mayor has a lot of competition in her bid for reelection. Some of the notable candidates include former supervisor in interim mayor mark farrell, board of supervisors president aaron peskin, ahsha safai and philanthropist daniel lurie. By the way, tomorrow is debate has been canceled after three dropped out. It was supposed to be hosted by the nonprofit, together sf. Mayor breed said the organization has troubling ties with former interim mayor mark farrell and in a statment on the website a nonprofit called the three candidates decision to pull out of the debate, political theatrics. The California RepublicanConvention Wraps up today in burlingame. Former president Donald Trumps daughterinlaw lara trump in south dakota governor christie know my some of the big names in the bay area. Da lin has more on their pitch to voters. Reporter former President Donald Trump may not win the deep blue state of california come november, but he has a lot of supporters at the california Gop Convention held in burlingame. Including ashley. And Less Government and more people have confidence in the people. Reporter it is a trump heavy convention and one of the coney keynote speakers is his daughterinlaw. Focus solely on Election Integrity because lets be honest, we can never repeat 2020, ever again. Reporter the new Republican NationalCommittee Cochair hinted at what donald trump has said was a stolen election. Even though there is no evidence of that. I november 5th we will know decisively , donald trump will be our next president of the united states. Reporter earlier on saturday afternoon, south dakota governor kristi noem praised trump. I am very good friends with him and i talked to him all the time. Reporter she highlighted her state success and how her policies aligned with trump. We took a different pathway through covid that what your governor did. South dakota was the only state in the country than ever once closed a single business. We never once mandated masks or vaccines. Reporter she took jobs in california governor gavin newsom, president joe biden, and even former president barack obama. If there ever was anybody who could talk smoothly and lie at the same time it was president obama. Reporter kristi noem was said to be a possible running mate for trump until a dog shooting controversy. I think she would make a great running mate. She is a tough gallon makes tough decisions and that is what we need. Reporter one prominent republican who was a noshow at the convention was Senate Candidate steve garvey. Some political experts say he is trying to distance himself from trump to win over independent voters. If youre going to bad one out of the park, you should be here, because we are the people doing the batting for you, buddy. Get yourself in. Reporter moderate republican say the understand the strategy. For the Party Leadership it is a balancing act. There are strongs Trump Supporters and people who are skeptical. They have to accommodate all sides and it is really like walking on a tight rope. Reporter ashley is a garvey supporter and a trump supporter. The only resident who grew up in the bay area says california is going in the wrong direction. She wants to see changes in policies that will reduce crime and improve public schools. There is something wrong here. It is not familyfriendly, it is not business friendly. To give you a sense of how really california elects republicans to statewide offices, the last time california elected republican senator was people wilson in 1988. That was the second half is to terms, before resigning to become governor in 1991 this weekend thousands of graduates celebrated their commencement at sonoma state and the university of San Francisco. Some colleges were able to hold her ceremonies in person, even though some around the country canceled fearing tensions from propalestinian protests. As the School Year Comes to an end, questions to remain about the student cam in so many bay area campuses. The cameras at sonoma state and uc berkeley and San Francisco state were all taken down after they agreed to some form of student demands. At this point, it is not clear if sonoma state will actually follow through with their end of the deal. The president , who agreed to the terms did so without the csu chancellors approval. It led to him being put on leave and retiring the next day. New deal has been reached with the enchantment and other bay area universities such as stanford, san jose state and usf the equipments of those campuses are still up. To benicia this morning. There is a new monument for a true living legend. A world war ii veteran has quite the story to tell. John ramos has the emotional tribute and the topsecret Mission Behind the tail. Reporter the pandemic broke out in 2020, the town of benicia began looking for one thing that can bring everyone together. And the more they talked about it, the more came down to one name. Harold bray. These are from various organizations around town. Reporter hundred start out to christen a new monument with a youthful statue of one of benicias favorite residents. Harold bray. At age 17, he shipped out aboard the uss indianapolis, secretly carrying the first atomic bomb. On his return, the ship was sunk by enemy torpedoes and 900 sailors, including harold, spent five days in the water, trying to fight off a swarm of sharks. It was a scene made famous in the movie , jaws. I dont know how many sharks. Maybe 1000. It was a bad experience. Nothing good about it. Every time you looked around and somebody was gone. Reporter harold was one of the 300 who were saved and is now the last living survivor of the harrowing experience. The statue portrays him as that young sailor, full of confidence , with a little bit of swagger. This monument serves as a beacon of inspiration, reminding us of the courage and resilience that defines the human spirit. Reporter later he became a Benicia Police officer, fondly remembered for a 19 year career helping local kids. When city leaders began searching for a unifying symbol, the choice became pretty obvious. There was a commonality between the citizens. Talking to hundreds of people. They kept coming up with the same name, over and over. Reporter like a lot of world war ii veterans, he really talk about his experience. It was 26 years later that he finally told some of his fellow Police Officers that he had been aboard the indianapolis. His first cousin , eileen, says his modesty has not changed much. Other people tell everything they have ever done. But he still is the same way. He said, why are all these people here today . You do not tell anybody for a long time . Are you glad you started talking about it . It does not bother me. It is just part of the stuff anymore. People know what i have been through. I dont know. Reporter you think it helps to have gotten that out . It has. It helps me to forget, to talk about it. Reporter talking about it has helped harold cope but he will never really forget it and now with the monument the hope is that others will not forget either. This is here, permanent, for years and years to come. It is a way for us to say, thank you. That is what that example. Reporter it is a thankful a thank you. Not just to harold bray but all the other young men aboard that ship you answer the nations call, but never got to come home. The uss indianapolis sank four days after delivering the bomb that ended the war. It is said to be the greatest loss of life from a single ship lost at sea in the history of the u. S. Navy. The time is, 6 11 on the sunday morning. We hope you are not in the backup. The fire that caused a traffic headache for drivers on the bay bridge. We want empowering sports or activities for the ones like this. And teams for them to look up to. That is a glimpse of what the bay areas newest wnba team will mean for our community. The warm welcome for the valkyries. Here is a live look at the sunrise. Just beyond the San Francisco skyline on the sunday morning. It is shaping up to be a beautiful day. More on bay to breakers in the full forecast when we taking a live look outside on the sunday morning at the bay bridge. Not many cars to see on the sunday morning. It was quite a different site yesterday. Traffic was brought to a standstill for several hours because of a grass fire on yerba buena island. The fire force some of the southbound lanes of the bay bridge , eastbound lanes of i80 to close for more than two hours yesterday afternoon. It created a traffic nightmare for drivers at the time. The flames were on a steep hillside with no roads or fire hydrants. They had to call in a fire boat, to help put out the fire. This is what fire crews were up against. Firefighters also say , adding to the challenge were the strong winds we saw yesterday. The fire created a huge backup in San Francisco. At one point, traffic was backed up at least five miles, all the way to the 280 interchange. All lanes did reopen at around 6 00 last night. Taking another live look outside at San Francisco on the sunday morning. One of the biggest events of the year is just a little under two hours away. You may be wondering, what the weather will be like outside. Here is first alert urologist darren peck. We are looking at bay to breakers and a lot of people will be in the city and it is an important forecast from that standpoint considering how wardrobe dependent it is and then the weather will play a role in how much you enjoy the chosen wardrobe. It will be sunny and we make it to the mid to upper 50s that we have looked at this forecast in terms of much less and way of the marine layer. But i want to show you the winds. You go through the morning on sunday and they are fairly light. The first half of this day is like a 10 to 15 mileperhour breeze. Whether you start of the city side or make it to the breaker side, watch what happens as we go into the early afternoon. Onshore breeze will turn on and into the 1 00 hour it gets windy at the beach. 1 00 arrivals, if youre heading out to the beach, into the early afternoon expect the wind to pick up. By 3 00, 30 mile an hour gusts. It is kind of nice for the first half of the day. The wind will pick up. Classic, into the afternoon. The onshore breeze usually intensifies as you get into the afternoon. Daytime highs for sunday. These numbers are noticeably warmer than saturday. In several places. Most notably in the north bay. The marine layer did not let up pretty much all day on saturday for a good part of those north bay valleys and with plenty of sunshine today, after what litter moline layer is way, you go to 80. We will do a comparison. San jose you are almost like saturday. Everybody else is warmer. If you degrees warmer even inland. When we look at the warm up for this week, tuesday is the top and it will be the warmest day of the sevenday forecast and when we take it from sunday, i will advance to tuesday and watch the color schemes change. Most obvious in those inland east bay valleys. You are almost 10 degrees warmer by tuesday. Call it about seven or 8 degrees warmer. Tuesday is top and wednesday is closed but we will starting cooling trend and the temperatures will go down by next weekend. Interesting change, by the way. In terms of how we got rid of the marine layer. You see what is coming . Strong northerly flow. There are seven different boundaries. Week little fronts passing through. You never see them in the regular satellite but when you look at the water vapor you can see where they are, it makes sense why the marine layer is out. It will get pushed out through today , and you kind of see it here as the northerly influence comes down and a cold front takes the marine layer and pushes it down. It will be down along the Central Coast this afternoon. But it is getting plowed away for at least the next day. It is coming back but for the next day, we get a break. Here is the sevenday forecast. San francisco and open, not much of a difference. When you look at north bay valleys compared to san jose, there is the tuesday warmup, followed by the weekend cool down. Im talking about next weekend already and when we look at the microclimates for the inland east bay you see the same story with temperatures into the mid 80s by tuesday. And cooling back down as we get to next weekend. On saturday, thrive citys blue and gold was replaced with black and purple. We will see more of that. The bay areas newest sports scene, the golden state valkyries hosted a block party for fans yesterday. Amanda harry takes a look at all the team is Opening Doors for a new generation. We want empowering sports or activities for little ones like this. And teams for them to look up to. Reporter he brought his daughter to thrive city for the golden state valkyries block party. To try to encourage her to get in the game. We are trying to decide on basketball or soccer camp for the summer. I think she came out and had some fun. It will be soccer. We will see. Reporter played basketball growing up and he looked up to the greats like Michael Jordan and kobe bryant. He wants his daughter to look up to next years valkyries players and no basketball can be for her to. That is another thing. I want to do soccer. Basketball is what the boys do, at her school and what she sees. Reporter with a line that extended out of the shop, proves many people are excited to see women take the court at chase center next year. The valkyries president , says the excitement surrounding Womens Basketball and sports in general, stems from decades of work. And people are supporting the product. Which are seeing is a mix of that and consumers understand their power. You want something to be successful and you buy the merchandise and watch it on tv and you demand you get to see it and broadcasters are responding and media is responding and ownership is responding. Reporter he believes the excitement is here to stay. She says she is excited to see her daughters grow up in that world. The best part is they will know , no difference. They will idolize these incredible athletes. Reporter he said he will bring his daughter back to chase and thrive city for games. And hope she will learn, she could be the next Caitlin Clark , lisa leslie, or steph curry. I think having her see a professional wnba team, if we start to go to the games, she may be more interested. Right now, who do we look to . We watch college on tv, we watch a little bit. As far as the bay area, as far as oakland and San Francisco, as being at the chase center, we have not had that. The valkyries will be the wnbas 13th team. They will play in the League Starting in the 2025 season. Also in the city, the eighth annual street soccer usa cup , where teams from across the bay compete in a unique forum for version of soccer on a smaller field. The event was a fundraiser, supporting youth soccer programs yearround in the bay area. Yesterday was the adult mens portion. The youth tournament kicks off today. Com