First heard two shots. He said a short time later he heard two to three more shots. I was just hoping that my family was okay because i was hoping it wasnt them or one of my friends. It scared the life out of me. Reporter he had dozens of family members and friends on campus. It was supposed to be a joyous day as he and other seniors received their diplomas. I was on the verge of crying. People were crying for me. They were so excited for me. Reporter about an hour after this video was taken gunfire erupted at around 7 45 p. M. As people were leaving. Oakland Police Say Two groups of people got into a fight in the schools parking lot. Its unclear how many people opened fire. Police say the shooting injured three people. Investigators say they detained multiple people and arrested one person who is an adult. They say theyre looking for additional shooters. Im going to try and not let it ruin the experience and i think the important thing, i was with family. I was with friends. Its hard to sleep. Its hard to eat. Weve done this before. Its honestly worse because like our families are here and dont have experience with this, but we do. Reporter skyline high started the school year with a shooting on september 5th, 2023. No one was seriously injured and Police Arrested three people in that case. Trayvon witnessed that shooting as well. They were playing i think a dice game and then someone was playing around. They lost and they shot at the dude. Reporter trayvon says its hard to start and end the school year with a shooting. He says even though skyline is known as one of the better high schools in oakland, hes glad hes going to college. Mostly shooting, all im going to remember. Im going to remember the shooting. Reporter Oakland Police would not say how the person arrested is connected to the school or the graduation. Theyre asking witnesses and people who took cell phone footage to contact them. The superintendent of oakland schools says the district is stepping up security at graduation ceremonies for the rest of this year just as a precaution. A Santa Rosa High School student has been arrested following an oncampus fight where he was allegedly holding a knif thafight took place wednesday afternoon at Montgomery High School campus. Police say the 15yearold student appeared to be grasping a folded knife when he stabbed another student. Last march a 16yearold was stabbed to death during a night inside a classroom. In the months following more students were arrested on weaponsrelated charges. Were following a developing story in San Francisco where police are investigating a crash between a munibus and a motorcycle. This happened a little over two hours ago at 44th and balboa in the Outer Richmond neighborhood. Heres a look at the scene. The motorcyclist was rushed to the hospital with unknown injuries. Were told no one on board the bus was hurt. Officers are still looking into exactly what caused this crash. Switching gears now, the memorial day weekend rush is now well underway, as you can see on some of our roads there. Heres a look at traffic conditions on our local bridges. If youre driving to your holiday destination this weekend and you havent left yet, experts recommend sit tight. Watch the newscast until about 8 00 p. M. And then you should depart. As if traffic wasnt already enough of a headache today, drivers on the bay bridge encountered this, a produce truck caught fire in the westbound direction late this morning bringing traffic to a crawl. Crews have been working well into the afternoon trying to clean up the mess on the roadway. Heres a look from our chopper just a little after 3 00 p. M. You can see theyve still got some more work to do. With the travel rush underway for the memorial day weekend, aaa estimates more than 3. 5 Million People will fly nationwide. Sfo expects almost 600,000 passengers. San jose is expecting about 400,000 and Oakland International is expecting more than 130,000. Take long weekend for us. I work at the va hospital, so i automatically get the day off for the federal government. We were running behind. I usually try to get to the airport two to three hours early, but i was at work before coming here. I didnt even think about that it was memorial day weekend and traveling. Lets take a live look outside, a bit cooler today after warm conditions earlier in the week and its looking like those temperatures will drop even lower tomorrow. Lets check in with first alert meteorologist darren peck. That fog and cloud cover definitely is rolling in. Its always a gray may, right . Huge difference. The thing about that is like the last week it really wasnt. We had all this sunshine, 80s yesterday. Let me show you what showed up today. The camera on top of mount diablo has this great Vantage Point of the clouds which have started filtering in over the mountains. You could see this beautiful display of the fog spilling in over the east bay hills and filtering in through pretty much the rest of the inland parts of the bay. Some of us cooled down like 15 degrees today from yesterday. It was a big drop and we are just getting started. Its going to get a little cooler tomorrow. Ill show you what that looks like coming up in the complete first alert forecast. For now, guys, back to you. Some big cuts are coming to important statewide programs to deal with a massive budget shortfall. Now a close ally of Governor Newsom is blasting his plan to close the budget gap. They obviously are very upset because they would hope somebody they spent a lot of money on would be better on their issues. At 5 30, how california teachers are sending a very public message to the governor urging him to reverse course. After today First Republic bank will cease to exist. The San Franciscobased institution failed in 2023 amid major turmoil for regional banks. Jpmorgan chase is completing its takeover and closing the 25 remaining bay area branches. Accounts for First Republic customers will transition to chase over the weekend. Lets give you a live look from union square where a new Nintendo Store is set to open next year. It will be their second official store in the u. S. , joining new york city. There are also three Nintendo Store locations in japan, including this one in tokyo. Ive been in there. The company says the new bay area location is a way for visitors from all over to experience their favorites from the world of nintendo. Still ahead, why a bad hair day could be good for the environment. This is a renewable resource growing right in front of your eyes. Mother nature was like look at this. This is useful. A growing backlash against closures at one of the south bays biggest medical facilities, why critics are calling on the attorney general to investigate claims of discrimination. Meet the oakland teenager who was accepted to so many colleges the letters barely fit in a suitcase. Find out whic now to our original series project earth. Yeah. Today were talking hair and how it can actually help save the planet. Who knew . Last week we showed you how human hair is now being turned into sustainable clothing. Also a Bay Area Company weaving hair into mats to mop up oil spills along our coast, now were learning about another potential benefit all thanks to an experiment right here in the bay area. Researchers at a Top University and colleges at a National Park are teaming up. They want to know if human hair can super charge our soil and help fight the impacts of climate change. Our anne makovec shows us what happened when scientists tried to find out. Reporter when it comes to hair, some research at cal is a cut above the rest. Collection is wednesday . Yes. Reporter in the department of Environmental Sciences ecosystem ecologist dr. Wendy silver and visiting scholar dr. Perez, the scientists are studying the biogeochemical effects of climate change. One strategy, grow more plants to pull the co2 from the atmosphere and lock it up in the soil. One way to do that may involve human hair. If it turns out this is the case, it would be very exciting. Reporter the scientists collected untreated hair from a local beauty salon. Those strands were ground up and then put into tiny bottles. We take a very small amount, just 0. 2 grams, and distribute that into the soil. Reporter that soil harvested from marin. In the lab undergraduate kynittenberg added small amounts of the hair into jar sampled. Eight weeks later some preliminary results. We began to see evidence the hair was beginning to break down. When we started to see the changes in the hairamended soils, we had higher nutrient content. Reporter the hair was acting like a slow release organic fertilizer changing the bad soil into good. One possible explanation . Hair contains nitrogen. Hair breaks down slowly and that nitrogen is packaged in the hair in such a way that its released slowly. Reporter in those jars scientists also measured nitrous oxide, a potent green house gas, but in this case no worries. In our experiment there were no plants, but if the plants had been there, theres a good probability that they would have been able to capture that nitrogen. Reporter resulting in slow prolonged growth which is what appears to be happening in experiments at the presidio. We scattered it over these tiny plants that could barely make it and that has resulted in this beautiful meadow of bunch grasses that wouldnt have happened had we not put that hair down. Reporter louis stringer is an ecologist with the presidio trust. He is blown away by what hes seen. Its amazing. I would never have considered that hair could be so productive for helping us to restore these very harsh soils. Reporter the trust is experimenting with hair compost to see if it can help grow native plants in tough soil. The barren land seen here was treated with either straw mulch, hair, fertilizer, or nothing at all. The only green growth occurred with the hair. Theres much more growth in those plots of hair than there is with just the fertilizer or with that compost itself. This is hair. This is hair. Reporter lisa gotier heads up matter of trust, a nonprofit based in San Francisco that collected donated hair. The nonprofit has partnered with the presidio and is also funding the research at cal. Gotier said Mother Nature had it right. This is a renewable resource growing right in front of your eyes. Mother nature is like look at this. This is useful. When im taking my hair off my cat or kidding my kids hair, it always goes into my garden now. Im starting to think about, you know, what else can hair do . Reporter making every day a good hair day. If you are inspired to toss your locks into your backyard plants, a word of caution. Stay away from long hair. It can actually tangle up birds and harm them. Matter of trust recommends little small bits of hair, even pet fur, that you can incorporate into your soil. Weve got more tips on our website at kpix. Com. Great tip. The bottlerock festival in napa is officially underway. Just like the white winged dove since a song sound like shes singing. There she is, tonights headliner, stevie nicks, also hitting the stage tonight, megan thee stallion, nellie and saint vincent. Heres a look at the chopper over the crowds gathering now. More than 120,000 people are expected to attend the festival over the next three days. Tomorrow the festival will be headlined by rock icons pearl jam and maya. Bottlerock wraps up on sunday with ed sheeran and queens of the stone age. For everything you need to know before heading to bottlerock, check out our guide on kpix. Com. As we check in with darren peck right now as all those people are headed to napa to enjoy that music festival, its going to be a little chilly. Theyll have to bring some layers. For the morning hours. If youre not going to napa, its definitely going to be chilly, but i think napa is one of the places if you get that far inland, especially sunday and monday, its going to be 70 and sunnier there. Wow. For the rest of us, its a totally different story and youre right about this, much cloudier and cooler today and theres a beautiful view now from our camera on top of mount diablo where weve been watching this over the afternoon. Were going to the big window on the bay and thats the scene from the top of mount diablo now and you can see all the clouds spilling in. Yesterday that view was completely clear. If we look at this a different way, even higher than the camera on mount diablo. Well go to satellite imagery today. This is a snapshot between 10 00 a. M. And 4 00 today. The reason why the time is important, normally we just show you the satellite, but i wanted you to know the context how long a stretch of time youre looking at, from 10 00 a. M. Up until 4 00 because typically the marine layer would have been gone by 10 00 at the latest and it stayed all day. What youre seeing is it spilling over the city and the peninsula and get over towards the east bay. This has been a pretty gray and cool day as a result of a renewed onshore influence. We can look at what this means for daytime highs. We did most of the cooling today. Im going to show you the daytime highs for tomorrow because theyre almost identical, maybe a degree or two cooler. Yesterday these numbers were in the 80s, daytime highs in the low to mid80s in the south bay, trivalley. Today nobody got out of the 60s. Were looking at mid60s through much of the bay. You can see temperatures across most of the rest of inland parts of contra costa county. Everybody got a noticeable cooldown today. You didnt need to be right on the water or through the immediate golden gate to really feel the difference. These numbers for saturday are the bottom. Were going to start gradually warming up once we round the corner into sunday. Well look at the forecast imagery because theres one other item for saturday which stands out because if that was our marine layer today, its going to be a lot more widespread saturday. In fact, everybody will wake up and it will be marine layer gray pretty much bay areawide and theres going to be a little misting at the coast. Tomorrow is even grayer because a lot more of us will be under it and its going to be a little more persistent, but there will be sun saturday because as we get into the afternoon, you can see that stuff melts away. We get a nice break. Skies will clear out. Youll have a nice saturday afternoon, but saturday morning is pretty gray. You can see some rain out of this. I refer to this more as marine layer mist because its not like it rains, but it does mist and it mists persistently along the coast tomorrow and in the east bay hills. Look out here towards sunol where you get measurable rain, even though it will be fairly light stuff. Thats saturday. Sunday well turn the corner and start a warming trend, but saturday, your carnaval forecast, you dont make it into the 60s. Sunday you will. You can see the second half of the carnaval forecast sunday afternoon is a little more sunshine and a little warmer. That covers that one microclimate. Ill give you the specific forecast on bottlerock as well. Those numbers are going to climb well into the 70s. You can see that showing up. Look at the number by sunday, big difference. Saturday is the day its gray in the most widespread way for the whole bay. Its going to be near 80 sunday and monday is just going to be even a little warmer. Temperatures will go up a few degrees from that mark by the time we get to monday. Lets see what this looks like in the sevenday forecast. The trend holds for the inland parts of the bay with that warmup over next week. I mean youre back to mid80s by the time we get to thursday and friday if you are inland. When we look at the numbers for the bay, those temperatures also warm up. You dont get as warm as the inland microclimates, but we do back to the low and mid70s and heres your holiday weekend, morning clouds, for the most part, afternoon sun, mid to upper 60s. Darren, thank you. One of the most stressful decisions for any teen is deciding what college they will attend. Meet the student from oakland who has more than a few choices. So far i have been accepted into 122 schools and some schools are not out yet. A live look from santa clara where the city Just Announced a deal with the 9ers to settle a longstanding dispute over levis stadium, why the its college emissions season and Many High School seniors have gotten their acceptance letters, some of them pretty excited. Such an exciting and stressful time. About 75 students at Oakland Unity High School celebrating their academic victories. Some are now headed for the uc system, others for state schools, community colleges. For many getting here has been overcoming considerable adversity. I had to overcome the passing of my brother during my freshman year. It was very hard and the school reached out. They reached out and had meetings, talk to counselors, helped me get through it. Oakland unity high, a college prep school, says 80 of its students are headed to fouryear universities. We love celebrating their success stories. Lets take you to oakland where a student applied to more than 120 different universities. How do you even do that . You know what followed . Hundreds of acceptance letters. Len ramirez reports. Reporter it takes a large suitcase filled to the brim to contain all of the letters of acceptance oaklands helms has received from colleges all over the country. These are either acceptance letters, Financial Aid packets. Sometimes theres boxes like these that theres tshirts or different accessories that schools send out. Reporter beginning last fall, helms sent out 150 applications to colleges. Before long he started hearing back and it became an avalanche of acceptance, big universities, small colleges near and far, almost all he applied to, want him. So far i have been accepted into 122 schools and some schools are not out yet. Reporter helms father chris said new letters of acceptance are coming to the mailbox almost every day. Every day has been a day of surprise and delight. Reporter and its not just acceptance letters. Scholarship offers and potential grants have also come in. Sometimes you get Something Like this and say yes. Reporter helms was born in uganda and lived there until just before high school. He has a 3. 94 gpa and one true passion, singing. Helms i