Allnew response from the companys ceo. Good morning to you. Thanks for joining us for our midday newscast. Im marcus washington. Laura garcia is off. This morning President Biden signed that law which to lead to the ban of the popular tiktok app. Joining us pliv, talked with a firm that helps companies and individuals market themselves on tiktok. What could a ban like this mean for the video creators and the influencers . Reporter good morning, to you, chris. The ceo tells me this could have a huge impact on Small Businesses who use tiktoking to acquire customers, and, of course, could put influencers out of work if this ban were to go into effect. He also recognizes why congress created this big and why President Biden just signed it into law this morning. If not familiar, tiktok is owned by bytedancechinabased company. The government is concerned it coal cause a National Security risk, so much data could be accessed by the chinese government. Also claiming china could manipulate the apps algorithm promoting propaganda. Selling tiktok or face a ban in the united states. Ceo of tiktok within the past 30, 45 minutes post add video on his own platform saying theyre not going anywhere and will sue. The ceo i mentioned, ceo of viral nation. Spoke to him earlier. A firm based out in toronto and new york hedging influencers and Companies Market themselves on social media. He says tiktok ban could hurt Small Businesses who use the Popular Video app acquiring new customers, i mentioned, a could leave hundreds of thousands of individuals who make their living on tiktok with no income. He tells me the white house did reach out to him for input prior to todays signing and also has a close working relationship with the people who run tiktok and doesnt believe the white house intends to shut down tiktok, rather just wants to see it get sold to a nonchinese company. Basic economics presents that tiktok does not want to lose its business, and if its banned it would. I dont think the u. S. Government wants to oppose its citizens views and i dont think the u. S. Government wants to create a bit of a black hole and create an economy and businesses that can filter on this platform. Both have significant significant wants, and i think its going to come down to whos willing to hold out longer. Reporter tiktok released this statement overt weekend before the Senate Approved this bill, before the president signed it into law. Its unfortunate the house of representatives is using the covers important foreign and humanitarian assistance to jam through a bill free speech rights and devastate 7 million businesses and shut our platform contributing 24 billion to the u. S. Economy annually. The ceo of tiktok not long ago posted theyre not going anywhere and plan to sue the federal government. Reporting live, bob redell, nbc bay area news. Wait and see what happens between them when they sue and now, when the bill is enacted. Thank you. A man accused of driving his tesla off a cliff on purpose with his family inside is back in court right now. A judge is still working to determine if he is fit to stand trail. In 2023 you may remember in a tesla plunged down the 300foot cliff near devils slide with his wyche and three children inside. All survived. Did it deliberately and going through depression. He pleased not guilty claiming pulling over to check the tire. Two witness are appearing in court today. The final decision from the judge is not expected until the next hearing may 2nd. Happening today, mma fighter back in court facing attempted murder and other charges for shooting a man during a car chase through several south bay cities. He is accused of molesting a young Family Member of velasquezs. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges. Just into our newsroom california is remembering a trail blazer. Delaine eastinserved from 1995 to 2003. Resting counties in the state acceptably, also a Council Member in union city. A public celebration of life is being organized for this summer. Conversations surrounding abortions who can get them, when is it legal continue with the Supreme Court. Hearing a challenge this morning to an idaho law which forbids doctors from performing emergency abortions even if the Womans Health it in danger. Requiring the life to be in danger, as you said. That standard the federal government says violates law. Concerned about this. Particularly concerned, because idaho saying its only when the life is in danger. Not when the health is in danger. And those two justices definitely gave the lawyer representative stateof idaho medical cases, some hypothetical, some real, a pregnant woman goes to the hospital in serious distress, not going to die but risks of blindness or worse. Not an option even if the doctor thinks its the best course of action. Federal law, called emergency medical treatment and active labor act. Emtala requires hospitals to, that can federal funding, anyway, they provide all necessary care. So these two things. Idahos laws and emtala conflict. So something weve been seeing this doss and roe v. Wade was overturned abortion keeps winning on ballots. Whats going on people see now for the first time what it really means to not have constitutional protections for the right to abortion. Right . This impact goes further than initially thought. Justice alito rather famously said after the Dobbs Decision overturned roe v. Wade the court was sending it back to the states and the Supreme Court was done with the question. He was very wrong in that prediction. Issue has come back to the high court several time. Here in california, Governor Newsom is ready to introduce emergency legislation allowing doctors from arizona, where abortion is restricted, to come to california to perform abortions in california on arizonans through an expedited licensing system. In fact, this live picture is from sacramento of the governor proposing this very idea. We will have a wrapup of what the governor says tonight in our evening newscast. Interesting approach. We know that other states tried to enshrine their rights. This is different. Hyde idaho is very differ and an interesting test case. Ours as well. Thank you, scott. You bet. A live look ahead around the bay area right now. Take a look here out of our window. San jose looking clear today. At least by my eye. We are getting a look whether this was its norm based on actual air quality data. Nbc bay areas reporter shows a look at the 25th annual state of the air report. Reporter good news, long term the air has gotten better here in the bay area and in california. The bad news, one bay area county has received a failing grade in all three measures of air pollution. Give you a look behind us. Look at those cars coming on and off of the bay bridge. The bay area is where it is on this report because of the transportation sector. Cars, vehicles, play a large part in our source for pollution. Take a look where we stand because of our choices in commuting. The bay area, mainly san jose, San Francisco and oakland range serve nth in the nation. Fifth particulate manner. Ozone, bay area 13th in the nation. According to data from the u. S. Environmental protection agency. Both ozone and particulate matter Impact Health especially in young and elderly. You might have expected a better grade given fewer wildfires happened last year. According to the American LungAssociation Wildfire smoke is not the biggest problem. Dominant source of air pollution in california and the bay area tends to be the transportation sector. Cars and trucks, buses to the ships at ports or other equipment at the ports or rail yards that are very heavily polluting. Thats why all of these types of sources really do need to be cleaned up. Reporter according to the state of the air report these are the cleanest cities to live in and the california is counties receiving fails grades in all three measures of pollution. They are in alphabetical order. Santa clara county among places failing in ozone, short term and yearround pollution measures. If you want to see more of the state of the air report go to lung. Org. In San Francisco, reporting for nbc bay area news. Thanks, ginger. For a quick look at the air quality here in the bay area, send it over to meteorologist kari hall. What we can expect today. Not the most beautiful shot but nice. Its not raining. Right. Not smog and we can actually see. I think its beautiful even though we have clouds overhead and thats what weve seen for us in the bay area today. Enough of the wind to mix things out. We are actually in a day we have fairly good air quality but also going to see a lot of cloud cover throughout today. Heres what to expect with peeks of sunshine going into the afternoon. As we go into the day tomorrow, it will be slightly cooler and the weekend will be much warmer getting sunshine. Heres a look at san jose. One of those other areas they called out where as of now weve seen pretty good air quality. There is a light wind and we see that coming in at about three miles per hour. We can expect peeks of sunshine later today and watching out for that. Talk about the weekend and our weather coming up in a few minutes. Thank you, kari. The california garlic festival is moving locations once again. You might remember that the festival moved to stockton amp organizers of the gilroy festival shut it down in 2022. Held at the fairgrounds now at the Merced County spring fairgrounds in los gatos august 30th, 31st, september 1st over the labor day weekend. Monster truck shows, a carnival and all the freshcooked garlic delicacies that repeat on us. I love garlic all right. Stick around, because new hope for answers. Ahead here on our midday newscast talking about a documentary set to air shedding new light on a murder of alexis kay. Plus, protesters who blocked traffic after several demonstrations brought bay area commutes to a standtill. Holding those responsible, a new bill. And giants taking on Pittsburgh Pirates this weekend. Threegame series. Watch it live from oracle park 7 00 p. M. Where else . Right here on nbc bay area. Stick around. Snee. Well, the family of a Contra Costa County woman murdered by her exboyfriend hoping a new documentary could help bring justice for their daughter. Premiering tonight. What did you think had happened inside that home . Alexis gabe did not leave that home alive. Alexis gabe killed back in 2022. This is after going to antioch to visit her exboyfriend marshall jones. 2022 of june Law Enforcement shot and killed jones in Washington State trying to arrest him for gabes murders a group comes together on a new documentary calmed where is alexis . The family says the doc proonks his mother hemped him. Gathering held at sabrinas pizzeria. Reservations required. And laying offer employees. Sun power plans to lay off about 1,000 of those people in the coming days and close down some of the insulation locations. Sun power says those cuts are part of a restructuring plan. A new bill will penalize demonstrations blocking traffic. This protest shut down the Golden Gate Bridge and the bay bridge. One delayed Organ Transplants from arriving in time at a local hospital. Protesters who block a highway preventing emergency vehicles from passing could be fined from 100 to 200, but do it repeatedly over the course of three years the penalties could go up to 1,000. The bill still has to be heard through the entire senate and the state before it gets a full vote. If youve noticed youre paying more for eggs lately youre not alone. A dozen large grade a eggs now cost 10 more than last year. Experts say the resurgence of bird flu is at least in part to blame here. Usda says more than 14 million egglaying chickens died since november. Now the countrys largest producer was forced to recall more than 1 million chickens in recent outbreaks. Factors like high meat prices, fueling a demand for eggs and possibly contributing to the high prices. Eggs are everything we do know now the locations of the express stores that will close now that the Company Announced it is filing for bankruptcy. Two bap area express stores Valley Fair Mall and the other in emeryville on bay street. The company will also close all of rts up west Stores Including one at santana road in san jose. And a key barrier to Home Ownership to those trying to make it in the bay. A new report finds more than 75 of adults still consider owning a home part of the american dream. Nearly 80 say the primary challenge is being able to afford it. More than half dont have significant income others say prices too high and cant afford down payments for closing costs. Nearly 70 are willing to take steps to find more Affordable Housing including moving out of state or buying a fixer upper. A new recycling facility in the north bay helping sort through lifes messes with help of artificial intelligence. Our meter peologist kari hall takes a closer look. Reporter preventing pollution on land in the ocean and in the air. It all starts with trucks entering through the gates, on to a scale, leaving behind the material they collected from homes and businesses through parts of marin and sonoma counties, and into the feeder it goes. Sort sort sort is the name of the game. Employees divide paper, containers, you name it, from the contaminants, a k a things incorrectly put in the recycle bins and then computers with an a. I. Component identifying certain recyclables. Use puffs of air to sort that material. So we decided to go that route, because its just a really effective way of producing clean recycle bails. Reporter telling us the new tech allowed them to pick out more than double the amount of material per day than before, reselling around 85 of it. That material will be sold to different markets. Most of the companies we work with are domestic. Reporter recycling is important for our climate in crisis. California generates over 76 million tons of waste each year. Being trash conscious helps save money, space and landfills, and much more. Hopefully as consumers were buying things made out of repsychable material to make this process sustainable. Sustainability. What we want. A. I. For everything using our natural air conditioning last night, kari. Nice to have cooler terps. So warm starting out the week. Normal temperatures for late april. Look where we are now. Even though i think we probably would like a little more sunshine. Seeing clouds all across the bay area. Temperatures now in the upper 50s to lower 60s. Get a look at the highs for this afternoon. Eventually its going to clear out at least for a few hours throughout the day, and our temperatures are going to reach up to 68 in cupertino and east san jose. Morgan hill, 68 degrees. Sevenday forecast coming up bottom of the screen, seeing more highs in the 60s over the next few days. Danville 67 today. 66 in oakland. Also going to see some mid to upper 60s for the peninsula. Daly city, 60. Downtown San Francisco at 63 and Marina District at 59. North bay, napa, 66. Ukiah headed for a high of 69 degrees. So heres whats going on. Weve seen several storm systems moving through the pacific northwest. A lot of that rain is going up and around the bay area, but by friday, there may be some spotty showers kim ingcoming in. A chance. Looks like the sierra will get at least scattered rain and snow showers before we head into a drier weekend. Then into early next week. Still more of those storms moving to the north of us. High pressure to the south. Just kind of in between and settling into this weather pattern that really doesnt look to change very much. Then looking at our hourbyhour forecast, stop it right here on friday morning. Because even though we are seeing breaks in the clouds, theres still spotty showers and then rain and snow going on in the sierra. Going there for the weekend, not a big snowmaker and see it of you here by saturday. Temperatures in the 60s in the next few days. Wanted warmer weather, only slightly warmer next week and talking low 70s here. Not a drastic change over the next several days. A gradual warming trend. Weve been watching to see if we can get spotty showers in here. The chance is so slight and accumulation were expecting very light as well. So i dont think it will change any of your plans. Going to be a nice weekend with highs in the low to mid70s. While San Francisco will continue tont see temperatures in the 60s with a mix of sun and clouds. Chris and marcus . Thanks, kari. Happening now, tickets to one of San Franciscos biggest Music Festivals on sale now. Kicks off august 9th. Runs to 11th at golden gate park. Tickets start at 465. This is for general admission. 715 general admission plus chris the ones yous want 1,075. Rock band the killers headlining tyler the creator and stream gel simpson and post malone performing a country set. Standing outside the gates like this. 16th year doing that going on since the show started. A lot of money. Hatching day is here. We are following the bay areas beloved falcons. They have one more egg left to hatch. Ahead on nbc bay area, tell you where you can watch, live. All right. It is a day. Hatching day. Under way over at ucberkeley. Anxiously awaiting the last little falcon to hatch. A look at annie. Falcons nest atop the campus there. Stepped away. So you can see three hatched. One is still like lazy daisy. There since 2016. Raising three new baby chicks. Their latest clutch. Three hatched with a fourth still on the way, but experts say it could hatch today and today is hatching day. Holding an outdoor screening to view the moment and answer questions. Brought food. You tonight want to see that food. Not a lunchable. Keep up with annie on a live stream of the nest on youtube. Aww you know what they eat. Theyre predators. Oreo and our patch kids joining forces because we need another oreo matchup. Hitting shelves nationwide monday may 6th. Kari so excited about this. Oreo has Sour Patch Kids mixed into the cookie cream filling. Yeah. Not all that. Merchandise as well. Look at this. Hats, sweatsuits, hair clips, socks, bags all of those items on sale may 2nd. Kari, there you go. My son will like that. He loves both of those. Together . Maybe. F. Ill try one. Teenage boy. Aww good morning and welcome to california live. Where we highlight the golden states secret