Nato. She also extended an invite from the queen to the president for a state visit to london later this year. And we are learning that the president is scheduled to speak with russian president putin on the phone this weekend. White House Press Secretary and the kremlin said they will speak tomorrow. This will be their first conversation since the president took office. Tensions between the United States and russia are at their highest nah years. The Obama Administration accused the kremlin of interfering with the election and forced diplomats to leave. The president could sign an order regarding those sanctions today. The president spoke to mexican president for an hour on the phone today. Trump said he loves mexico and called the conversation friendly. The call came a day after the two leaders canceled next weeks meeting in washington following the executive order to move forward with plans to build a border wall. We first told you yesterday about trumps proposed 20 tariff on mexican imports to pay for the wall. If the tariff goes had to effect the cost would pass onto american consumers. That means the cost of products from vegetables to cars to beer would go up. The United States government said that mexico sent 295 billion worth of goods in to the United States last year. Mexico is the second biggest agriculture supplier to the United States with imports amounting to 21 billion. The Sacramento Bee is reporting that Democratic State lawmakers in sacramento plan to introduce a package of bills that would make california a sanctuary state. The legislation would restrict state and local Law Enforcement agencies helping federal immigration agencies across the state of california. This week the mayors of San Francisco, oakland, san jose and berkeley vowed to remain sanctua, y cities. Its no surprise that here protests groups opposing the president ss policies are speaking out loud and clear. Demonstrations were held on both sides of the bay thursday. Hundreds of people gathered outside of the Federal Building protesting the president s executive action advancing the keystone excel and Dakota Access pipelines. Direct examine administrators accused them of endangering the environment and taking sides with big oil companies. The government at this point isnt even like doing a good job at hiding the corruption thats going down. Its a horrible situation. The crowd marched for a while and briefly blocked an intersection. Guards from the department of Homeland Security and San Francisco police were there but no problems were reported. In fremont people held a prayer rally themed we are one. Participants called the president s executive orders dangerous and organizers plan to hold more demonstrations. They are also urging people to contact their local and state lawmakers to tell them how they feel. The search is underway in the Santa Cruz Mountains for a bank robbery suspect. Today that forced Lexington Elementary School to can is sell classes. We have more now on the investigation and the worry that he may be getting more violent. Report the bank robber was last seen near alder cross heights and locust drive. Deputies have been told they need to secure their homes. They stay this suspect may have changed his clothes. The Santa Clara County sheriffs department, they say that just after ten last night they received a 911 call from a woman who said a man broke into her home and held a knife up to her. He eventually took off into the womans van and dumped it. Investigators believe that the man is the bank robber that they have been searching for since yesterday morning. He was reportedly last seen wearing a green beanie and dark colored pants. Sheriffs deputies released a photograph of the bank robber but in the picture his face is covered in a mask. That is the problem. Police have been working to identity who he is. They say after he robbed a bank of america yesterday he sped off in a White Chrysler and crashed. A Police Officer fired shots at him but it was not clear if he was hit. The thief has been on the run ever since. All that happened in front of me. I mean its hard to explain because i was shocked. Thats how it went down. Reporter as authorities searched for the robber people in the Redwood Estates area were told to stay inside. Highway 17 was closed for nine hourst. Finally reopened at eight last night president we are waiting to get the update from the sheriffs department. In the meantime they are telling people who live in the area near the Santa Cruz Mountains to call 911 if they see anything suspicious. Reporting live. Ktvu. Traffic back to normal this afternoon on interstate 580 following a fiery big rig accident. All westbound lanes reopened just before the heart of the commute. The the truck then caught fire. Again this happening ona 580 near 680. 6 00 last night. The cause of the crash remains under investigation. There were no reports nip juries. Today transit officials approved critical funding to help construct suicide nets on the bridge. Allege exsavage joining us live with more on todays important vote. Reporter good afternoon. This long awaited project can now move forward. Really a big milestone here. There is been a lot of debate about the cost of building suicide barriers on the bridge. There is also been some debate about how effective they would be. This morning the Golden Gate Bridge district approved to contracts related to this prosecute joint. The board agreed to pay two million to the the chp so that officers can close lanes of to the bridge during this construction project over the next few years. Those steel suicide net also be built 0 feet below the bridge walkways. They will extend 20 feet out. Acting as a deterrant for anyone thinking of committing suicide. Its taken us quite a while to get to the point of starting construction. Everybody here is very excited, very agencier for this to start. We know we need to crush suicide and nothing will do that in the scale that is needed but for a physical detelrant. One of the people who spoke at today aborted meeting was kimberly. Her 18yearold son ended his life by jumping the bridge back in 2013. Every since his suicide she has pushed for suicide barriers on the bridge hoping to prevent future tragedies. We just kind of put all of our energy and grief and everything. We did not want any other family or friends to have to go through what we went through and then all of the survivors 245 we have met that have lost children and loved ones and 23578ly members. It just just like this needs to stop. The price tag is 193 million. A third of that will come from the bridge districts general fund. The rest will be paid for with state and federal money. This construction project will get underway in summer and itll go on for the next four years. We should point out the traffic impact for people who travel across the bridge should be minimal because all of this work will happen during the overnight. We are live near the Golden Gate Bridge. Ktvu fox 2news. Thank you. The raiders have taken another step toward a possible move to las vegas. According to reports executives submitted a proposed Lease Agreement for the 1. 9 billion dome stadium to las vegas leaders this comes a week after they filed relocation papers. Owners could approve the move when they meet in late march. A new service for people between San Francisco and the east bay. After the break what you need to know about the ferry from berkeley to the city. And we will check in with rosemary for details on your weekend forecast and when the next round of wet weather could be arriving. And you probably have seen them on television if you watch saturday night live but didnt know that he is a local boy. We will hear from one him as he he gets ready for big prehe formance this weekend right here in the bay area. With the xfinity tv app, anything with a screen is a tv. Stream 130 live channels, plus 40,000 on demand tv shows and movies, all on the go. You can even download from your x1 dvr and watch it offline. Only xfinity gives you more to stream to any screen. Download the xfinity tv app today. Were southwest, and we have one word for you. Yes. Yes to flying further for less. And yes to new international nonstops. Thats just one more reason were the official airline of the yes coast. And yes you can now fly to more of your Favorite Places from right here. Thats transfarency. sfx clap, clap, ding . People in the east bay have a new way to get into San Francisco. We have more on what this means for people in the east bay. Reporter we can tell you they celebrated their first trip across the bay. Their first trip from berkeley right here this morning. This is to cool. Like being on a cruise or something. You can hear there were excited passengers this morning. Operators say today is the first new Ferry Service to be added to the bay in decades. Operators say the Ferry Service will save people from one the worst bay area commutes and riders were excited to hit the bay. I feel like going from alameda and jack london but this idea of having one from berkeley is cool. Itll be a beautiful ride. A short one too. Reporter Ferry Service is somewhat limitedt. Runs thursday and friday. Two round trips in the morning and two in the afternoon. The cost eight dollars a ride. Operators say that once they get more demand they will increase their schedule and helping people get across the bay and gena void that morning drive. All right. Thank you. Bay areas rain and snow has really done a lot of good to help california recover from the drought. The United StatesDrought Monitor said that severe or extreme drought now only exists in 51 of the state. Take a look at the two maps. The one on the left shows drought levels at this time last year and then the bun on the right shows the areas still dealing drought condition this is week. Officials say only about 3 of the state remains in extreme drought. Mainly around Santa Barbara and although much of the state is better off than just a month ago the governor said that he still is not ready to declare that the drought is over. Plenty of surrender firs are taking advantage of the big swells off the bay area coast. This is what it looked like out at mavericks yesterday. The famous surf competition hasnt officially been called but that didnt stop as you can see here surfers hitting the waves. N t could test window closes on march 31st. And now to our look at our weather outside. Rosemary in the weather center. Are we in for a great weekend . Looks like we need to work on her microphone for just a little bit. We have some news about uc berkeley tuition. Tuition is going to go up for students. The board approved the increase in a 64 vote during its meeting in San Francisco yesterday. Tuition is set the to it increase 2. 5 in the 2017, 2018 school year. Thats a 282dollar increase for each student per year. This means tuition will be roughly 11,000 for the year and this is the first increase in six years but students say that they are not happy about it. Students dont have aid. What happens is that you are forced to go to food pantries, forced to make go found me accounts on your social media begging people to help you survive. A spokesman said enrollment has increased since the freeze six years ago. They said the 88 million generated by the increase will help lower class size, provide more counselors and update classrooms. The berkeley still plans to allow a controversial reporter to speak on campus next week. He is scheduled to appear next wednesday at an event organized by the republicans. The chancellor said he doesnt agree with the views or actions of the reporter but said he has the right to speak. The sold out event is scheduled for wednesday night and demonstrations are expected. The reporter made headlines when he was banned from twitter avenue abuse itch comments about leslie jones. Coming up investigators in the east bay hope that new surveillance is video will help them find the killer of a 59 yearold woman. Why they say the man seen in the video is suspicious. As i was saying outside the door this is afternoon a beautiful one. Temperatures are warmer. Just slightly and as we get in to the bay area weekend we are look agent the warm up to continue. Lets look outside the doors where we have a beautiful shot thereof the Golden Gate Bridge for you. Mostly clear skies. Started out a little frosty for some but we have good visibility and again temperatures feeling pretty good already. We do have again the mostly clear skies and this is from a different perspective here. We are going to remain with the mostly clear skies for today. Partly cloud koi to mostly clear for saturday as well he as sunday. The winds generally light as wellw. Very the off shore breeze. Its a light one. On shore in napa. Fairfield reporting a breeze. Concord seven and oakland a southerly breeze at nine. Wind in place. Typical when he have High Pressure over the area. 55 degrees in oakland right now. 58 in napa. We have 56 for you there. Along the peninsula this afternoon. 5 in redwood city. South bay locations 56. A popular number. San jose and as we look to the inner east bay 53 in livermore. A Beautiful Day at half moon bay. 57 at this hour. Temperatures up by a few degrees. At least in most areas, up by three. Concord, livermore up by five. Along the peninsula. Up by four. San carlos. A bit cooler haywood. Here is a look at afternoon highs for today. Temperatures about 58 degrees for the afternoon high in oakland. We will go 57. San francisco n to the south bay. 58 for you san jose. 57 morgan hill. Our north bay locations quite nice for you here. 56 in santa rose a. 56 for antioch and 57 at the coast this afternoon for pacific a. The extended forecast here showing you the bay area weekend in view. Temperatures will continue to climb. The overnight hours will remain on the chilly side near freezing for our inland cities, widespread 40s to start the morning for the bay side communities and had to the afternoon. 10 degrees on saturday. 64 on sunday. Question dont stop there. We get back to work on monday temperature also continue to climb. Mid to upper 10s in the forecast as we get into the end of january. Beginning of february. Looks quite nice. The extended models want to bring us the rain back it looks like by midweek wednesdayments between now and then we can enjoy the mostly sunny, relatively mild weather. We will get outside and do just that. New developments in the vw emissions scandal. The associated president now reporting prosecutors have evidence that the former ceo had knowledge about the cheating earlier than he first claimed. He stepped down incest of 2015 just days after the scandal became public. At the time the vw executive said he was not aware of any wrongdoing by his company. Taking a look at the big board. Health care stocks are gaining today while Energy Companies are actually slippingl as the price of crude oil moves lower. You can see the dow jones now down 15 points this friday afternoon. If you are in the mood for a movie this weekend there is quite a variety of films to pickf. They range from a movie about a dog to a thriller. We have the run down. This is me. This was me. Then i came back as that little gate. Reporter a dogs purpose heads to theater this week with the story of a dog who learns his purpose after being reincarnated. The film is based on a best selling book. Its been the center of controversy after a video on tmz showed a frightened dog resisting going into a pool of Rushing Water while filming a scene. I had a dream. Right here in the. Thats where we will find the gold. Also in theaters, kenny wells to laid the American Dream story gold. About a mining prospector who heads overseas to savor his company. Womens is a fake character but the tale is loosely based on a gold mining scandal. He is also a producer on the film which co stars edgar ramirez. There is also the 1st and final installment in the video game inspired franchise resident evil. Called the final chapter. The action packed flick is once again led by alice going back to where it all started to take on the Umbrella Corporation for one more showdown for survival. On screens in 2d, 3d and imax. I think you have the wrong car. And you can still check out the new number one at the box office, the latest suspense thriller split. In new york. Fox news. Some cubs in china are also celebrating the Lunar New Year. The panda cubs were out for visitors to see. These are just a few of over 20 born in this Research Base last year. This because giant pandas arent considered adult until they are fiveyears old. Its chinas national animal. Folks i havent seen in a while. You still doing saturday night live . Yeah. I going to ride that horse until it drops. How he found his passion for music in the east bay. And the cease and desist order affecting a local landfill. We will be right back. S strummed guitar you cant experience the Canadian Rockies through a screen. You have to be here, with us. Theres only one way to travel through this natural wonder and get a glimpse of amazing. 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