Off. The Police Tracked him and contacted the chp. Officered did attempt to pull him over but he took off and hid two petitioneds. No word on how theyre doing. The suspect did not know the woman that he tried to kidnap. The battle between ann coulter and uc berkeley headed to court. The students filed a lawsuit. Nbc mark matthewss in San Francisco this comes after kaylie tried to reschedule the appearance. Thats right. They tried to move it to may the 2nd. The attorney in this case is dylan. She is a former vice chair of California Republican party, currently National RepublicanCommittee Woman and in this lawsuit she accuseds the university of california of capitulating to demonstrators who planned to protest coulters appearance. In february vandal as broke torched a generator and did 10 oh to of damage. When the Young Americas Foundation a tennessee nonprofit and Berkeley College republicans announced plans to bring ann coulter to the berkeley campus, the university decided it would be inviting another violent clash and cancelled doult eras april 27th speech. That means theyre allowing to critics to violate freedom of speech. San francisco attorney and republican nashville Committee Woman has said the university offered coulter a twohour window on the afternoon of may 2nd. Miss coulter will never be roud to speak at the same time and manner as lishlt speakers a this is unconstitutional. The universitys president press secretary saying in part berkeley has been working to accommodate mutually agreeable time for miss coulters visit. Threat of violent protest should convince any sane person that it ought to be rescheduled. I believe this is a political effort by her to sell more books, get more attention, and promote ann coulter. Attorney dylan had a stinging response to jackie spears comments saying that Bay Area Congress william didnt know what she was talking about ann coulter tweeted she intends to come to berkeley on the 27th as scheduled even though the university has rescinded that invitation. Nbc you be bairnz. Thank you take a look outside the monday night forecast is gloomy, gray evening across the beau. Look at live Traffic Cameras from sand rafael to san jose, the clouds are blanketing the region. Jeff is here what do you see. Tonight a very wig storm system producing clouds spotty showers. As we get a closer look, most of the activity tonight has been across the contra costa and Alameda County the bigger thing is a look at how much above average april has become. In terms of the number of rainy days we usually six in april. We have seen. More rainfall in april than weve seen in the past several years. As we get a closer look at the numbers you can see how phenomenal it is and napa over three inches this month which puts us at 298 of average. In oakland, 225 . Most rainfall in april since 2012. Were tracking latest rain chances ill have details at 5 20 and when much hotter 80s return again the full forecast come zblup look forward to the 80s. Track all the changing weather on smarch and Download Free nbc bay area app. You can sigh the radar. A Cross Country get away with plans to leave the country. Thats what prosecutors say a tennessee teacheser was planning to do with the student he kidnapped. The 15yearold girl is back at home in tennessee. But he remains here in Northern California in court. Nbc skut bud many is with us. What are the new details revealed today. Tad coupleens did appear in federal court in sacramento. Raj the charge you mentioned carries a minimum penalty of 10 years to life in prison, 50,000 fine. Coupleens was in court briefly did not enter a plea federal prosecutors accused him of planning to take his victim through the United States and into mexico after taking a 4500 loan before they disappeared. He stole his wifes car picked up the teenager and began making his way toward California Armed with two handguns. They say he told investigators he planned to sail to south america with the teen admitting he bought a small water kraft before he was caught. His sister spoke to nbc news about her brother. Hes done this horrible thing that he has to pay for. But he is still my brother. And i love him. And it hurts me to see all this bad stuff about him. Coupleens and his victim had been the subject of a fiveweek long search before they were found near redding. She went home. Coupleens was arrested. Today the judge told reporters he will be transferred back to tennessee. Surveys mayor says he needs answer bd the power outage that crippled much of the city High Pressure if left 90,000 customers without power for hours. Courts cancellation as whole lot of 50 50 pg e blames a overloaded circuit braerker which failed and triggered a fire. The mayor says i wants to work with the company to make sure it doesnt happen again. I think they need to look at all the substations, see whats old, materials there and really make that investment. And we need that kind of action from them. And i got the assurance from the new ceo she will do her best to do it. The mayor says he wants more information on the risk to the power grid in the event of a major earthquake. Within the last few months gotten update from washington, d. C. This is all about the possible shutdown of the government the deadline as you might know is friday. Congress must pass a spending bill or face shutdown np President Trump says funding the border wall will not be a Sticking Point in in budgets standoff. A senior white house official tells nbc news that the president is open to finding money for the wall later this fall. So later this year. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have been pushing back about funding the wall. The president first showed a willingness to change his mind during a meeting this evening with the conservative media members at the white house. Our coverage of the Trump Administration continues on nightly news. China put its fos on high alert for potential aggression aggression from north korea. This move might impact the u. S. Relationship with north korea. Lester holt will explain at 5 30. Ph. D. Evidence confirmation a Mountain Lion entered a peninsula home and snafrpd the family dog. The this woman and her daughter say they leave the back door open. They say as she slept one of the two dogs started barking. Then suddenly silence. The family saw large paw prints on the floor and the state wild life warden found blood on the bedroom door the analysis was from the dog with trace amounts of Mountain Lion dna. Young girl approached by a strange man attempting to lure them into his kbar in broad daylight. Peggy bunker. Why police say they need your help. Coming up. The warriors head coach urges people not to have back surgery. Marianne favro coming up the surprising response from one bay area Orthopedic Surgeon. Meteorologist jeff ranieri clouds back in the east bay here in walnut creek being can tracking rain chases and when 80s return. Less than ten minutes. Asking for help tonight. They say a an a pair of troubling incidents have police asking for help tonight they say a man tried twice to lure young girls into his car. Righthand loss alt ohs high school. Nbc bay area talked to the mother. Tg talked to the mother of loss alt ohs mom with more on who theyre for np this has to have the mom totally freaked out. Reporter absolutely. As you might imagine, very scarey. We talked to one of the parents today, a parent of 11yearold girl approached. But there was also a 15yearold girl approached. This man in the beige or gold car actually exposed himself to that girl. These parents want him caught. Try to catch them they need to camp him he cannot be outen the sfreet. This loss alt ohs mother on edge after a man approached her 11yearold daughter and friend. Friday afternoon as the girls walked here near the high school. Waved said, hey, then mentioned for them to get in the car as he reached over and opened the passenger side door. They reported it to the police who notified the family the next day a second girl also approached on friday. This man exposing himself. Once she turned to look she recognized that he was exposing himself. The suspect is described as a white male, 18 to 20 years old, long wavy blond or reddish hair, pulled into a short upony tail driving a gold or beige colored sed zbloon anyone in the area matching that description seen, act being suspicious with we would like people to come forward. Most alarming when the girls ran to the neighbors home for help the man waited to see if theyd make it inside safely. When they ran up he didnt immediately drive away. President he waited to see in the girls got into the house. Pretty frightening there for the family. Now the police say anyone in the area that might have surveillance cameras on the outside of their home, anyone that might have witnessed anything or spotted this car or this mans description they do want to hear from you. They are asking for the publics help in case there is morestoneses of this approach and attempted luring. Thank you peggy. The sanford band will play with with a new leader after several years of being in and out of trouble the university hired use russell gavin. Back in december campus conduct board temporarily suspended the band for violating several school policies, including hazing, skaul harassment and alcohol abuse. The band was falloutd not allowed to the travel the bowl game in texas if you remember. Two virile videos anguished airline traerngs now represented by the same attorney. Cell phone video now of fridays tearful confrontation on American Airlines flight here at sfo. The mother of two young twins claims a Flight Attendant yanked her stroller away so hard it nearly hit one of the told letters. Other passengers reacted angly. Ts dave daoser to attorney was hired. His Attorney Says ceo osk ar munoz bunkle the issue by failing to apologize. Mr. Munoz had that opportunity to publicly, first of all, apologize. And he didnt. And then he called the doctor belligerent. Then he finally said, meia cull. Latin for my fault the Attorney Says dr. Dao will be filing a lawsuit. He doesnt know whether there will be action in the American Airlines incident. Flying in and out of sfo on the week you better be ready fore delays. The airport works to res from the second longterm runway at sfo the work is happening over the weekend. The past weekend work triggered more than 50 cancellations. Airport Officials Say weekend travelers should expect similar issues as work continuing through midjune. Airport said its made ample warning with the airlines about the work. He is in pain has been for more than a year the warriors for foresweep tonight in against the they have to do it without the leader, head coach steph kerr ruled himself out over the weekend indefinitely he might not come back at all the issue ongoing symptoms related to back surgery. A picture of kerr today showed up during the teams shoot around in portland. He shared the news with fans yesterday. Recommended people avoid back surgery at all costs. This is not only a sports issue now but a medical issue lets bring in nbc bay area Marianne Favro in san jose with more. Reporter well im here at the where people are already gathering to watch tonights game. And a lot of them are talking about the candid comments that kerr made yesterday about not having back surgery. Well today we talked to a bay area Orthopedic Surgeon you might be surprised what he had to say about kerrs comments. War yets head coach steve kerr did make appearance at a morning shoot around in portland today he made it clear pain nausea and other issues will keep him from coaching tonight. The 51yearold has been suffering from the effects and complications of a cerebral spinal fluid leak following back surgery in july of 2015. Yesterday he offered some very blunt advice to anyone with similar back issues. And i can tell if you youre listening out there if you have a back problem stay away from surgery. I can say a that from the bottom of my heart. Rehas been rehas been. Dr. Robert is a Board Certified and. He has 25 years experience. We asked him what he thought about kerrs comments. Well he is not a physician but its good advice. I think in general most back problems can be managed nonsurgerically with rehabilitation, sometimes medicine. But the doctor says for some back surgery is the best option. There are some circumstances that do require operations in order to get back up on their feet. He says aer is eastbound alspinal fluid leak is a rare complication. He also noted it can be hard to track and fix. And can lead to the type of sfr pain kerr has had. We also reached out to the American Academy of orthopedic surgery for a response to coach kerrs comments but we have not heard back yet. Reporting live in san jose Marianne Favro, nbc bay area news. Thank you. So many fans around the bay area around the country feel for him. We wish the best for recovery. Jeff ranieri with us on the fleminoey monday evening. Quite a drastic change from the sunshine we had on sundays forecast get a look at moirkt climate weather you can see outside right now in San Francisco exclusive at t ball park camera we have a game this coming wednesday, vip pass for the 7 00 game. Youll see the overcast conditions currently 59 degrees in downtown. And we keep the clouds as we continue to throughout tonight. The larger change in the Weather Forecast really has been sparked off by the jet stream currently positioned right across Northern California. Looks like it will stay in just about the same spot the next two days, keeping the on again off again chances of wet weather with us. More nuisance spotty showers and drizzles undergo at times rather than large storm to me you can see on the radar, the koornt confident costa and. And across 5805608 tomorrow morning as forecast i think the biggest thing that well be dealing with will be the clouds that will be continue to push across the bay area. 48 expected trooi tral peninsula 53 on a the south bay at 51. North bay 49. Sf 54 and the east bay 52. I to think eventually some sunshine build unless the forecast on tuesday. You have to wait for it. While its kind of gloomy still you can see as we advance the sunday for east bay pence la and south bay more partly sundy to particle cloud ary sky. As we had we head through tomorrow. Warm up three to about iks is degrees 69 in san jose. Notice the winds, breezy out of northwest at 15. For the east bay well start to see a little bit more the milder weather. 71 in antioch, 72 in concord and 66 in highward, peninsula sunny into the arp pch 66 in bellant, San Francisco 63 along the embarcadero. 65 in mill valley. 71 in nap an. Stented forecast a lot to talk about. The chance here for spotty showers into wednesday. Dry on thursday. Becomes windy on friday. 20 to 40mileperhour are gusts possible. Check out San Francisco had week. Low 70s the weekend weve been waiting for for a long time dry weather continue into next monday. The Interior Valley forecast also watch for chances of spotty showers into wednesday. And then by this upcoming weekend upper 70s to low 80s. This week could be the start of what might be a twoweek drying trend for us. Well keep an eye on that. I know im already thirpging about what i might do this saturday. We havent heard two weeks of dryness in a long time. I know its great. Thanks jeff. Coming up imagine going to a restaurant or gym while on a flight. One company says its trying to make that happen. Yes, the toyota mirai runs on hydrogen. Yes, the fuel is complimentary for up to three years. Yes, it has an epaestimated range of 312 miles. Yes, you will probably have to answer lots of silly questions from strangers. Yes, this is a mindblowing marvel of technology. And, yes, you can buy it today because the future doesnt start next week, next month or next year. The future starts now. In the hydrogenfueled toyota mirai. Cancelling some of his upcoming concerts. Ct. Happening now on website, elton john cancelling some upcoming concerts, doctors say he is recovering after contracting potentially deadly infection. Giants trying to shake things up after the worst start in 30 years np the team tapped a rookie to pitch again against the dodgers, a 21yearold from the minor leagues. Back in a moment after a car plowed through his home overnight, a walnut creek father is still shaking his head o. A car plowed through his home overnight and tonight a walnut creek father is shaking his head over being called lucky. Firefighters say the crash could have been deadly the driver failed to make turn off the road and plowed into the only room in the house that didnt have a sleeping Family Member in it. Loud. Boom. Crash, shouting kids and shouting wife. Authorities say alcohol was not a factor and the driver was not arrested the tonight the displaced family in sleeping in a hotel. What are you going to do on the next flight . How about work out. Air bus showing what it called the future of thar travel. They give aus peek today. This is an exercise pod that fits inside a commercial airplane. The pod created the silicon office of air bus take a look lets you work out use the exercise bike or maybe take a yoga class. Especially the goal is to have pods for different uses, restaurants, play areas whatever passengers want. For now its fitness. You can have a spin bike class, do yoga, without on do some bench pressing with resistance bands. No word on when the pods might actually get onto an airplane. You can do your yoga right there. And sit down all sti