Right there in oakland. Downed trees, power outages, that made the possible even into tomorrow morning. Thank only we had most of the rain in february or we would be doing with extreme fire damage right now. Ready to. 8 inches of rain in santa rosa. The fire damage is elevated but it is not extreme. Ive more like coming up. Protesters who shut down the bay bridge, remember them . The demonstration called him President Biden to demand a ceasefire in the war. It brought traffic on the bridge to a standstill during the morning rush hour, just before the president was said to speak during the summer. 78 people were originally facing charges. Dozens of people packed the hallways of the courthouse today before the hearing asking the judge to throw out their cases. After learning the case would be dismissed, the lawyer said it was a victory for those exercising the right to protest. We think this is a good resolution to return the focus of what is happening in gaza and the genocide and all the devastation that is occurring there and get out of the courtroom and back to trying to influence this government and this country to stop the genocide. The protesters agreed to do five hours of Community Service and the group will also pay 4400 total in restitution. Was started as fun activities at a Senior Center take a not so pleasant turn as you can see. We first told you about this at 4 30. A bus ended up in a trash and some of the pastors to the hospital. Reporter youre looking at the aftermath of an afternoon bus crash. An suv collided into a bus carrying the six seniors on their way home from the Senior Center. I guess he was making a left turn, another vehicle ran a red light and hit our vehicle on the side. Reporter all six seniors suffered injuries and had to be taken to the hospital. Try delta said there driver jumped into action. He did everything by the book. The vehicle was leaking gasoline and the first thing he did was try to get his clients out of the vehicle to make sure they were safe. Reporter this is where the seniors they started. Before bingo, the Senior Center hosted lunch. People were in her dancing and talking and having good time. It is a very lively band, some people go outside because it is too lively. The drivers said people were singing songs before the crash happened. They said this is the one day they look forward to every day. He was pretty sad this happen. Reporter rack at the Senior Center, folks were hoping their friends return the same. They have a positive perspective could we are at that age anything could happen every day. Every day is a blessing and precious, god be with you. Reporter jody hernandez, nbc bay area news. They are taking some Road Construction into their own hands. As many members of the group installed his own road diet by closing one of the lanes on franklin street in front of sherman elementary school. The area had an instructor hit and killed. They are demanding they go further to protect families in that neighborhood. We reached out to them and they did not comment. It is one of their proposed locations to install safety enforcement cameras. And san jose family is now suing a former neighbor whose child is on the autism spectrum. The suit claims the child is so disruptive and should be declared a nuisance. The family of a 12yearold says he is nonverbal and can only communicate through grunts paired his mother says they actually moved out of the home because of a neighbors complaint. The child is 10 you to visit his grandparents sparking the suit. They want to ban him from the area and they are also claiming emotional distress. She says comments about her son are unacceptable. It was deeply offensive. I think the issue is a level of understanding for this level of autism. This is a meanspirited lawsuit. The result lawsuit claims there are frequent loud parties at the home. Their lawyer said the complaint speaks for itself. Another blow to oakland as restaurants and others close make changes because a safety concern. A popular because spot will not reopen. We are talking about and you and west oakland. The owner says it is not safe to stay open. In an instagram posting claims theft and crime, vandalism. It has remained close as a fire back and december. Oakland city says theyre working on the possibility of a stain in business at this location. He has lost medication with a particular owner at this time so im going to try to help them make those connections. He is that of a Business Owner that we want in the city and that we want to say rooted here. Right now we are just trying to work out some of the details on the space. We did reach out to the owner for, but have not heard back. Across the bay, San Francisco is being sued over conditions in one of its roughest neighborhoods. They say the tenderloin is being turned into a zone for drugs and homelessness. They are demanding solutions. Reporter tonight San Franciscos emily never had is at the center of a new lawsuit. Two neighborhoods and five residents claim the city is essentially tolerating open air drug dealing and homelessness in the district. The city has for years treated the tenderloin as a containment zone for narcotics activities and that conditions have gotten much worse in recent years may be in part to the fentanyl crisis. Reporter we spoke with Matthew Davis about the suit. The current state of the tenderloin is for my clients and of people who live or work in the neighborhood the sidewalks and public spaces are unsanitary, unsafe and inaccessible. Reporter the residents say they want the court to force a fix. What they want is an immediate solution. So they are specifically saying that we are not asking for an award of money damage. For mac today the mayor talked about some of the steps the city has already taken. Especially a u. N. Plaza and other parts of the tenderloin we are seeing some improvement but nighttime installable problem. We have redirected resources not every night but in some instances where able to redirect resources and working with the Drug Enforcement agency and the u. S. Attorneys office, theyve been able to step in and be a significant source in addition to that california highway patrol. The number of tents are down in the city and meanwhile the cities Attorneys Office said they were reviewing the complaint and the city is making progress disrupting open air drug markets and disrupting homelessness. Adding, quote, it is clear the increased litigation ever homelessness is not improving conditions on her street. The courts are not equipped to police every interaction between outreach workers and un housed individuals. The lawsuit is not the only legal action. You see laws that a motion seeking compliance with a 2020 court order around encampments. Christie smith, nbc bay area news. There is a new place at helping people find a job. San francisco opened its first ever grier city at the city hall today. Staff at the center will help a new candidate with the hiring process. It will serve as a hub for applicants and employees. Staff will be able to offer advice as well for interviewing and gifting help at how to operate a resume. This is probably something that shouldve been done a long time ago. With almost 4000 vacant positions, we have an extra ordinary opportunity to make sure we are hiring more people and we are doing so asked her. If you want to head there the Career Center is located in room 110 inside city hall. There still counting the votes from last weeks super tuesday and tonight an update on one of the closest races in the state. The runoff to see who will replace Congress Woman on the peninsula. As of this afternoon evan low is now in place ahead of joe simitian. This is being decided by voters in santa clara and santa rosa. They packed the coliseum last year and now to think clubs want to show their frustration with the oakland as as the team plans to move. Going to almost shut down to receiving one of the states most prestigious education rewards. We will show you how to this is inspiring students to dream beyond the classroom. You may notice it today that your allergies are bugging you. Look at this pollen blowing around, pine, ash, cedar and oak. I will have that for you and all the weather coming up in about seven minutes. Right now measles are growing, how Health Officials are racing to get ahead of it. Are racing to get ahead of it. And todays critical ro thousands of women with Metastatic Breast Cancer are living in the moment and taking ibrance. Ibrance with an aromatase inhibitor is for adults with hr positive, her2 negative Metastatic Breast Cancer as the first hormonal based therapy. Ibrance plus letrozole significantly delayed disease progression versus letrozole. Ibrance may cause low white blood cell counts that may lead to serious infections. Ibrance may cause severe inflammation of the lungs. Both of these can lead to death. Tell your doctor if you have new or worsening chest pain, cough, or trouble breathing. Before taking ibrance, tell your doctor if you have fever, chills, or other signs of infection, liver or kidney problems, are or plan to become pregnant, or are breastfeeding. For more information about side effects talk to your doctor. Thanks, mom. Be in your moment. Ask your doctor about ibrance. A pfizer product. As the oakland as tell us their full speed ahead with their move. However they arent giving up. They dont weather team to move the want to send a message to john fisher. This month, they are planning an opening day boycott, the block party tailgate. It will be had at the parking lot. They dont want you to go inside the game, they want you to hang in the parking lot on march 28. That is openingday when the as host the cleveland guardians. They say it we fund, food, games and giveaways. In the parking lot. From the brink of closure to the talk of the town. A Media Academy at Oakland School that was almost shut down has been given one of californias most prestigious educational awards. Melina jones is at Fremont High School with a look at how their Media Academy is moving the bay area forward. Reporter beyond the lights and cameras, this academy is setting students up for success in and out of the studio. For these students, this is more than just another class. I absolutely love it, it is like this is the whole reason i came here. Reporter this separates and teaches students film, design and even virtual reality. The student photographer has already been published in the New York Times and believes the sky is the limit. I was scared and i was honestly like, i dont know if i will be able to do it. Can i be good, can i continue doing it . It was like, it was like a confidence boost. Reporter her success is one of the many reasons why the state is now rewarded the program a distinguished academy designation. The award celebrates more than 90 celebration and his commitment to at risk students. You want a better city and a better community, it starts here, it starts in the schools. Reporter she is the academys director and one of the former graduates. After the program almost shut down due to low enrollment seven years ago, maranda build it back up to meet the states metrics. She also set a goal to create a diverse environment that truly represents their students. I want to shift the narrative. As a former student we have always had a poor reputation. It is not like that here. This is a safe campus. This is a good school. We have wonderful teachers here. I want our students to know that the work they do is important. Reporter lessons in the classroom. They push you here to do more. So they can bring that on to like when youre out of school. Reporter stood is now preparing to graduate to say the academy has prepared them for their future in media and beyond. You have people by your side at all times trying to help you and that really gives you hope for the future. More than 70 students are said to graduate this years Media Academy always plays either go to college or straight into the workforce. In oakland, velena jones. A contest is exciting the santa clara county. A Poster Contest has opened up to adults with special needs. We caught up with a 26yearold woman named emily. She cannot be more thrilled of the opportunity. It is fun to do something new every day. Like something new. I am so excited that the county actually is opening it up for the population that she is in, for people with special needs. To be part of the community. That is awesome. The posters are due by may, the fair starts in july. Officials say the fair will be most inclusive event it is ever held. There will be like five winning entries and they will make five different posters. Why not . I feel the pressure to get the work is ready for that. You have it today. The wind has been a lot for us here. Here is the thing, we get over this wind and then we have a beautiful weekend for us. The wind advisory not only here in the bay area also stretches to a good section of the Northern Valley and even right down to Southern California with wind gusts up to about 50 miles per hour. If youre doing any traveling tonight, just be aware it is gusty here to a lot of the stay. If youre heading out tonight up into napa, mostly clear skies, 67 right now. Sustained winds at 17. Still getting gusts up into the 30s. It will be blustery tonight by 9 00 and 10 00. The weather pattern will stay pretty much the same tonight right through tomorrow morning. We have High Pressure to the north, that is what has brought the sunshine. It is is low pressure right here and that is what is creating this window. That stays with us through tomorrow morning. Here is what we are going to see by tomorrow night. Late tomorrow night and into your saturday that low pressure with the wind is going to be well off towards the east away from us. See you later, goodbye, get out of your wind. We will still keep some effexor from High Pressure. That means sunshine and warm weather just in time for saturday and sunday. Let me show you more on the wind forecast. Coming out of the north and east with those gusts. Even into tomorrow morning, this could be hard for you especially into santa rosa and napa. Some dangerous gusts up here, 50 in napa. Make it hard if youre traveling over the bridges. Be not as bad through redwood city and san jose. This is what you want to see by the afternoon, that wind calms down and it is only going to be anywhere from 5 to 20 miles per hour. As we step out the door tomorrow in the peninsula we are down to a chilly 49 for the south bay. A mixture of and 50s for east bay, San Francisco and northbay. Here is the best thing, through the afternoon tomorrow as the wind comes down the numbers turned up, it is going to be amazing outside. I think our fiveday forecast overall is still shaping up better than what we had today. 75 in san jose, for the east bay 70 in danville and peninsula 71. San francisco 70s and to the north bay 74 in santa rosa. The 70s continue even into early next week through tuesday. Drops off with Colder Weather as we head thursday, friday and the following weekend the low 60s. With a chillier weather we may get into some more rainfall by march the 23rd on saturday. I will keep close tabs on that but right now keep your eyes on that saturday and sunday, it is around the corner. The countdown is real. Did anybody have a hard time focusing today . Yeah, almost every day. Oh, okay. Every day is like a friday. Thanks, jeff. Coming up, lights will be back on the bay bridge. We have an update on how that is coming and how much money organizers still need. There is change coming to the San Francisco symphony. The music director plans to leave the 70 after the upcoming season. He has been the connector for 4 years. He has decided to part ways because he and the board do not share the same goals for the future of the symphony. Issues include cost cutting measures and reducing the number concerts and the decision to put towards on hold. He is proud to work with the orchestra and is worldclass musicians. Lets take a look outside, and live look at the bay bridge. It has been a year since the lights lit up the bridge. Tonight there is a glimmer of hope that the lights could once again shine bright. The nonprofit eliminate install the lights more than 10 years ago. Last march they were forced to turn them off. The nonprofit started crowdfunding to fix and install more lights and it is closing in on this goal. So far it has raised more than 10 million of its 11 million goal. Theyre so close to the lights wont turn on immediately. Once it reaches the goal it will take another 10 months to get the lights back on. Up next, the rescue cup is looking for a new name and how you can help pick it. Lets take a look inside 30 rock, the sissy control room. One of the top stories, what happened to a missing College Student who was on a visit with his Fraternity Brothers to nashville. Lester joins us in about 3 business. Its not a ninetofive proposition. Its all day and into the night. Its all the things that keep this world turning. The gotos that keep us going. The places we cheer. And check in. They all choose the advanced Network Solutions and round the clock partnership from comcast business. See why comcast business powers more Small Businesses than anyone else. Get started for 49. 99 a month plus ask how to get up to an 800 prepaid card. Dont wait call today. An update on the rescued tiger cub at the oakland zoo. We told you about her last month, they rescued 8monthold tiger cub from privately owned facility and brought her to the zoo. The veterinarian discovered some bone fractures and Health Issues but they say she is doing well and holding strength. That is good news. Now they want your help to give her a name. Here are your choices. You can cast your vote on the dues x page. Voting ends at midnight. Why do cops let him get away . We have the exclusive video. It shows burglars passing right by squad cards. Lester holt right now joining us for breaking news tonight. The federal judge denying Donald Trumps motion to dismiss his classified documents case the former president back in a florida courtroom today for another showdown with special counsel jack smith. But the judge denying mr. Trumps bid to throw out the charges over the documents the fbi seized from maralago and in new york, word that mr. Trumps hush money trial could be delayed, but by how long also tonight, the massive tornadoes in the midwest. Millions under severe threats from texas to ohio plus, the major winter storm slamming the west up to four feet of snow in colorado after five months of war in gaza, some of the sharpest