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Traffic mess. This weekend. But we begin with the propalestinian protests at colleges across the country right now. Tense exchanges with Law Enforcement and millions of dollars in damage with demonstrators refusing to give up the fight. Abc seven news at 430 starts right now. Always live abc seven news starts right now. It is day three for the propalestinian protest at stanford. Students are still intense, coming up on 24 hours after the universitys deadline to disperse. So far, no arrests, though santa clara deputies are keeping an eye on the encampment. Hi everybody. Thanks for joining us. Im dionne lim. The protesters at stanford and colleges across the country are demanding their universities end their investments in Companies Involved in the israelhamas war. Abc seven News Reporter lena howland dives into that demand. And what companies protesters are targeting. Reporter a cardboard cutout of Stanford University president Richard Sackler with blood on his hands and signs calling for divestment are greeting newly admitted students at stanfords spring admit weekend. We want Stanford University to pull all of its funding from companies that are helping facilitate israeli war crimes. Its unclear how many students slept here friday night, but more than two dozen tents are still set up on the campuss white plaza. Theyve been here since thursday for what demonstrators are calling a Peoples University for palestine. This demonstration, drawing support from this parent of an incoming Political Science student here visiting from georgia. So it appealed me. Lets go. I have a couple of hours and offer them whatever help they i can do for them being a parent. Adrianna a stanford junior and spokesperson for the group, says there aligned in solidarity with other schools nationwide. Theyre demanding stanford separate itself from any companies or organizations advancing military efforts in the israelhamas war. And theyre calling out three wellknown companies stanford has ties with lockheed martin, stanford has ties with chevron with hp, and all three of those companies, are hurting the palestinian people. In a statement, the university said. In 2015, the board declined a proposal to divest of Certain Companies doing business in israel. They say that decision has remained in place ever since. They also say it doesnt impact stanfords endowment, which the University Website shows is 36. 5 billion as of last august. Stanfords statement continues to say the universitys endowment has no direct holdings in Israeli Companies or direct holdings in defense contractors, beyond small exposures resulting from passive funds that track broad indexes, such as the s p 500. But students say they want more transparency. Stanford refuses to disclose its, investments like where it puts its money, and thats another thing we would like the school to do in palo alto. Lena howland, abc seven news. A similar encampment continues at uc berkeley. A group of cyclists rode by today as part of their propalestinian demonstration through the streets of the east bay. Organizers tell us theyre riding in solidarity with a para cycling team out of gaza. That stopped competing during the israelhamas war up in far Northern California, cal poly, humboldt is going remote for the rest of the school year, as student protesters occupy buildings on campus. The University Set a deadline last night for them to leave or face arrest. Some of the demonstrators left peacefully, but others are still barricaded. The University Says vandalism and theft are happening across campus with millions of dollars worth of damage. Cal poly humboldt has also found at least two locations with antisemitic graffiti. Are you in riot gear . I dont see no right here. Some universities arent waiting for students to leave on their own. Today, police at Northeastern University in boston detained about 100 people as they cleared the protest. There northeastern Officials Say the protesters were using anti semitic slurs and they will not tolerate hate on campus. The University Says anyone with a student id that was detained would be released and face discipline from the college instead of criminal charges. New Yorks Columbia University is at the center of this College Protest movement. The situation there is calmer today after a tense standoff where campus demonstrators earlier had this week unite. City administrators are still negotiating with students, trying to get them to close the encampment. Protesters say they are not expecting an update until monday, and we do have continuing coverage of the campus protests across the country and here in the bay area. You can find it all at our website abc7 news. Com. Citizens from one oakland neighborhood plagued by sex trafficking are calling for more help from city hall, mayor shengtao and Alameda County District Attorney pam price were there for todays rally today at 13th avenue in international boulevard. Neighbors and Community Groups say the area is seeing an increase in prostitution, often involving underage girls. They asked city leaders to do more than just make arrests. Will you lead a multijurisdiction effort to fund, design and launch Regional Human Trafficking Awareness Campaign to increase Public Awareness of the impact of sex trafficking on victims and consequences for those who buy sex . Todays press conference took place just a few blocks from Saint Anthonys k8 school, where more than a year ago, the abc7 news iteam shot video of women who appeared to be sex workers soliciting right outside the school in the middle of the day. The city says when they put up barriers near Saint Anthonys, the prostitution and trafficking just moved down the street. His death sparked protests and vigils, but no criminal charges. Today marks one year since a Security Guard shot and killed blanco brown at a walgreens in San Francisco. The guard suspected 24 year old brown of shoplifting, and in the scuffle, the guard shot brown. He later said his life felt threatened. The San Francisco District Attorneys office didnt charge the guard, with browns killing, saying there was clear evidence it was selfdefense. The young womens freedom center, where brown worked as an intern, is honoring him today. Executive director julia arroyo shared a statement saying in part, quote, blancos life was worth so much more than what it was taken for in the face of adversity. He was resilient and courageous. He fearlessly fought for the rights and dignity of trans people, and left an ever lasting mark on y wdfc and the movement as a whole. The people hardest hit by californias Home Insurance crisis could be facing a new blow. The head of californias Insurance Plan of last resort says rates are probably about to skyrocket for many homeowners. The states fair plan is their only option. It is pricey, though thousands of dollars a year more than other plans for people in high wildfire risk areas, the head of the fair plan told a state committee this week. That problem is going to get worse. Our rates are going to go up, no question about it. If we can put that cost of reinsurance in there, if we can put use catastrophe modeling, just like the voluntary market, our rates are going to go up. This week, we learned allstate will consider once again writing new policies in california, but only if the state makes changes to make it easier for them to raise rates. The head of the fair plan wants those same options, so the plan can have enough money to cover losses in a bad fire. Happening now, two major road closures impacting drivers as caltrans tries to make repairs. Nine miles of 680 southbound are closed through pleasanton between 580 connector and koopman road. That closure is scheduled to last until monday. Caltrans is working on road repairs in the area. Anybody who is familiar with that part of the road knows that theres potholes and all kinds of problems, and so right now, im happy to say we are on track to reopen on time, on schedule. All right. That is optimistic. News 680 is rescheduled to reopen at 4 a. M. On monday in the northbound. Westbound highway 37 is also closed all weekend. Caltrans is repairing the pavement from vallejo to sears point this is the second weekend in a row that road is shut down. There were brutal delays on the detour route last week. You may remember with some people waiting 90 minutes to go 13 miles, the closures are expected to be lifted by 4 a. M. Monday. Tracking the impact of teslas autopilot hundreds of crashes and more than a dozen deaths tied to crashes that federal investigators say could have been avoided. And a big weekend for big sur. But a critical highway is still closed. How marathon runners are changing their route with highway one still out of commission. Im Spencer Christian, despite this gusty onshore wind flow, we have relatively mild weather away from the coast and its getting milder. Ill have the accuweather forecast coming up when feel the power of osteo biflex®. Taken every day, its clinically shown to improve joint comfort in 7 days, with significant improvement over time. todays Cancer Research is tomorrows victory. A victory that is there for the taking. Grab it. Now that was a great halftime speech. Lets go win. [jim valvano] dont give up. Dont ever give up® a train carrying propane derailed. This is all happening near the Arizona State line. Communities. Within two miles of the derailment are under evacuation. 50 miles of interstate 40 through new mexico and arizona are shut down. The good news no one was hurt. Federal Authorities Say teslas autopilot system has contributed to at least 467 collisions, resulting in 13 deaths and plenty of serious injuries. A National Transportation Traffic Safety analysis, i should say, found autopilot is likely to be misused, and the Systems Design led to avoidable crashes, the report says it did not sufficiently ensure driver attention and appropriate use. The agency is now opening a probe into the effectiveness of the autopilots latest software update. A popular marathon course will be modified thanks to the recent landslide that shut down highway one. The big sur marathon usually goes one way from big sur station to carmel, but this year runners will start in carmel and have to turn around at rocky creek bridge and go back to carmel. Thats all because of a slip out that caved part of the highway back on march 30th. The highway remains closed to all but local residents and essential workers, who are allowed through the area only in twice a day, escorted convoys. Earlier this week, caltrans said repairs to stabilize highway one are expected to be completed just before memorial day. Well, coming up, its not just San Francisco feeling the pandemonium. Another california zoo will be getting giant pandas. And we just found out how exactly cute they are. Plus, taking a live look outside where things are sunny and breezy for us right now. Abc seven news weather anchor Spencer Christian joins us with a look at the rest of your weekend forecast. Ahead in sports, the nfl draft is complete. So who did the 40 niners take on the final day . And where did brandon rice land . Jerrys son staying in california for a team that hopefully found a steal in the seventh round. Send pandas to the San Francisco zoo. The Chinese Government signed an agreement to send two more bears to the san diego zoo. That deal, you may remember, was originally announced in february. These are pictures of the male and female pandas themselves. Their names are yun chuan and chen bao. San diego last had pandas five years ago. The zoo will now begin to upgrade enclosures so the animals have a larger living space once everything is approved. The two bears could arrive by the end of the summer. The pandas coming to San Francisco are expected to arrive in 2025. Three new ones in San Francisco, joined officials together in the japantown Community Today to break ground on the peace plaza renovation project. Japantown having to go through the internment, having to go through world war one that decimated this community was such a huge hit on this community, but it rose again also rose when i had a chance. It was challenged by redevelopment and it rose again. And to me, this community is so special to me. The project sets out to transform the historic plaza to hold its place in the city as a community hub. It will have new paving plants, seating and maintenance. Construction is expected to be done and reopened to the public by early 2026. Well check it out. Hundreds of people in the south bay put on their walking shoes this morning to help fight pancreatic cancer. Almaden lake park in san jose was the site for todays pan can purple stride, a fundraiser benefiting the pancreatic cancer action network. Abc seven news meteorologist sandhya patel as you see there, emceed todays event, which raised more than 400,000. Wow an amazing day weather wise for this fantastic day. Blue sky all over the entire bay area. Not even a cloud around right now, but it is windy out there yet mild. Heres a look at the satellite radar composite image. You can see we have a brisk onshore flow. The combination the combined influence of uh clockwise circulation around High Pressure which is dominating our weather. Its centered down here. And then the counterclockwise flow around this area of low pressure up in the gulf of alaska. So weve got gusty conditions here in the bay area right now. Gusts up to 37mph at sfo, 30 at san mateo. Even the inland areas like concord, livermore, hayward have gusty conditions right now, yet its milder in most locations by 2 to 4 degrees. Then at this time yesterday. So lets move along and take a look at current temperature readings. Nice view from mount tam looking down onto the bay 60 degrees in San Francisco. Right now we have mid to upper 60s at oakland, hayward, san jose, 62, redwood city 57 at half moon bay. Other locations right now checking in at 71 degrees at santa rosa and concord. Also 71 fairfield 76, only 61 in petaluma. Thats our cool spot on this panel. 67 at napa, 68 at livermore. And these are our forecast headlines. You can see the trees are flopping in the breeze here. This evening is going to be clear and mild, but quite breezy. So if youre going out just bear that in mind. Tomorrow sunny and milder than today. Still a bit breezy tomorrow, but not with the gusts that were experiencing today and the week ahead will bring us a string of sunny days with a warming trend. By midweek, its going to feel almost like summer for this evening and going into the overnight hours that onshore flow continues, we might see a few thin clouds moving by, but basically were talking about Clear Conditions overnight and mainly sunny skies again tomorrow. Overnight, low temperatures will be mainly in the upper 40s in the farther inland locations, low 50s right around the bay shoreline and upper 40s on the coast. And of course, it will be breezy again. Highs tomorrow, upper 60s near 70, actually around the bay shoreline. Mid 70s in the warmest inland spot. So it is warming up. And as we look ahead, the maximum temperature trend temperature trend upper 70s inland on monday, even higher on tuesday. By wednesday well see 80 degrees as some of the warmest locations. And heres the accuweather seven day forecast. Notice how warm it gets around midweek going into the latter part of the week. Low 80s inland, mid to upper 70s around the bay shoreline, but then a sharp cooldown next saturday. Abc seven sports is sponsored by your Northern California honda dealers. The nfl draft is complete. The 40 niners had five picks here on day three. Keep in mind, theyve had Great Success in over the years. In the later rounds. Super 40 niner fan mark. Super fan mark is in his name. 40 niner mark that is a chance to announce the draft pick in detroit today. He was fired up. The niners selected five players today and will focus on another wide receiver. They took wide receiver jacob cowing out of arizona. Went in the fourth round, picked 135 overall. Of course you remember the niners used their first round pick on floridas ricky pearsall, the wide receiver there in the first round on thursday. Cowing, five foot eight, 168 pounds, ran a 4. 38 40 yard dash. Honorable mention the pac 12 this season. Arizona the School Record 13 receiving touchdown this season. So heres a look at day three for the niners. Three defensive players and two offensive players chosen a little bit of technical difficulties. Well hear from head coach kyle. You know being close like we were last year feeling were going to have a chance to at least have an opportunity to try to do Something Like that again. You want to think always what helps us now, but then you get to that spot and there always isnt that answer right then. And so do you go with what kind of helps us now or what helps us more in the future. And so youre just constantly weighing that, whether its the draft, whether thats free agency, and everything. All right. East palo alto native and menloatherton highs Trey Franklin was taken in the fourth round pick 102 to the denver broncos. Denver trading multiple picks with seattle to move up 19 spots to take the former oregon wide receiver and pair him with his College Quarterback bo nix, who the broncos took in the first round on thursday. Other day three picks include cal safety Patrick Mcmorris of the dolphins, sanford kicker joshua cardi to the rams. Brandon rice will stay in southern california. Taken in the seventh round, pick 225 overall to the la chargers. Hes the son of hall of famer and 40 niners legend jerry rice. Hell go from usc to play for Jim Harbaughs chargers. Rice was second all pac 12 this year, led the trojans with 12 receiving touchdowns last season. All right, some baseball as in baltimore this afternoon. Oakland looking for their Third Straight win. Former a cole irvin starting for baltimore. And he was good seven scoreless innings struck out five. The hook gets brant rooker looking right there and a frustrating day for a starter. Jp sears gave up three runs with two outs in the fourth and in the fifth gave up homers on back to back pitches. Adley rutschman and then ryan mountcastle. The as lose seven. Nothing. The rubber match is tomorrow. The as can win a series. Theyve you know, not been terrible this year. Astros are a lot worse abc7 sports is sponsored by our Northern California honda dealers. One other note on tariq owens, whos the son of terrell owens, former niner. Hes going to sign an undrafted free agent deal with the 40 niners. So a little bit of i know a lot of niners fans are wondering where brenden rice is going to go. You have towson coming to the bay. Oh, lets see if he can meet. I love that you were also reading your last story and looking it all up at the same time, making sure i got it right. Thats what i was trying to i multitasking. Im impressed by it. Not all of us have these skills. 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