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Sf state rally for solidarity with gaza. Reporter the crowd of students jammed Malcolm X Plaza at the noontime rally. San Francisco State was about to become the latest American University to establish a livein protest over the conflict between israel and the palestinians. Free, free palestine. Reporter the student demands are now familiar, divest from israels military, cut ties with its universities, and recognize the action in gaza as genocide and in the crowd was Political Science Professor James martell, part of a newly formed group called faculty for justice in palestine lending support to the student movement. Its beautiful. I love seeing all the students and faculty all united. Weve been organizing for a long time together. Reporter on sunday the Faculty Group sent a letter to the administration requesting that they take no action to hamper the oncampus protests. Theyre asking they refrain from dispatching police to student demonstrations, refrain from academic retaliation against students and respect their right to protest on campus. Still professor martell isnt convinced things will stay peaceful. The tradition at this university is to have cops come and destroy everything and arrest everyone. So if they keep up that tradition, were in trouble, but i hope that doesnt happen. Reporter that tradition dates back to 1968 when police engaged in a bloody clash with students protesting the schools treatment of people of color. The incident became a National Embarrassment and led to reforms by the university, including the establishment of the nations First College of ethnic studies. Another member of todays Faculty Group, professor omar zaza says he hopes it wouldnt happen again, although the images from campuses around the country do feel like what happened before. In the specific moment as were seeing the examples of countless universities that have resorted to such blatant forms of oppression, we thought better safe than sorry. Come together proactively and say we are asking this not happen and were here to support. Reporter when the rally ended, the protesters began assembling their tents surrounded by a protective line of students standing hand in hand. They seem convinced that there will be an of effort to force the students out. I think its nonetheless kind of part of the tradition how the left gets dealt with is to bring in the cops. Reporter College Campuses have always been a crucible for social change. The question for san Francisco State is whether it will be a place where history is learned or simply repeated. The antiwar pro palestinian protest has sprung up at universities all across the bay area. Heres camps at stanford, berkeley, and sonoma state. The encampment at sonoma state went up this weekend. The students say they want the school to disclose their investments, create an official curriculum on palestinian history and a permanent ceasefire. A lot of us here are working class students and were realizing that this is a time for using institutional power to help those who dont have a voice. Organizers are also planning a faculty walkout for palestine tomorrow at 11 00 a. M. The school released a statement saying Sonoma State University is primarily concerned with three things during such events, the safety of our students, faculty, staff, and visitors, supporting the right to Free Expression by our community and minimizing disruptions at the teaching, working, and learning taking place on campus. Further north cal poly humboldts campus is still shut down. Students are occupying two buildings there. Over the weekend protesters let journalists inside one of the buildings where you can see broken windows and graffiti just covering the walls. School officials estimate the damage to be in the millions. Meanwhile students in columbia ignored a 2 00 p. M. Deadline to leave their encampment. The University Says they have already started suspending students at the protest. 21 House Democrats sent a letter to columbias board today demanding an end to these encampments or that the trustees step down. President biden spoke with israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the weekend as the u. S. Continues to push for a ceasefire and release of hostages. The president dispatched secretary of state Antony Blinken to the middle east to work with partners on a potential ceasefire. This is his seventh visit to the region since the war began nearly seven months ago. At an event in saudi Arabia Blinken urged hamas to swiftly accept israels latest ceasefire proposal. Were addressing it, working on it together with partners throughout the region. Hamas has before it a proposal that is extraordinarily, extraordinarily generous on the part of israel. Hamas leaders flew to egypt to discuss the latest proposal from israel. It includes the group releasing as many as 33 hostages in exchange for a pause in hostilities in gaza. For the very latest on ceasefire negotiations and the protests sweeping u. S. College campuses, head to kpix. Com or downloaded the free cbs news app. We now know the names of family members killed in a car crash in pleasanton last week. It happened around 9 00 wednesday night and authorities are still trying to figure out what caused the crash. San Francisco Police need your help finding a hitandrun driver. It happened february 25th near alemany boulevard in the ingleside neighborhood. San Francisco Police say a pedestrian who was hit died at the hospital. Police released these pictures of that collision. They say theyre looking for a dark toyota camry, possibly from 97 to 2001. The car is missing the toyota emblem from the hood. Students in the San Francisco Unified School District say they have had to deal with repeated racist attacks and harassment. Now their families are fed up. Our children are being left behind. Our grandchildren are being left behind. Were tired of it. At 5 30, the potential lawsuit now in the works and why civil rights advocates say its a sign of a much larger problem. A new effort on curbing the Opioid Crisis in california, governor gavin newsom announced the state will soon have its own version of an overdose reversal drug for nearly half the price. The state is working with the new jersey Pharmaceutical Company to buy an overthecounter nasal spray version of naloxone, a generic version of narcan. The state will charge 24 for a twopack, 40 below the current market rate. The state will provide the drug to First Responders and universities for free. Governor gavin newsom will travel to the vatican next month to speak at a climate summit. The governor is expected to collaborate with researchers, engineers, including faith and community leaders. Still ahead, they call it a game changer for the electric car industry, how people who own evs are reacting to teslas opening up their charging network to everyone. Having more chargers available, its a great thing. They say the future is female and the firefighting industry is no exception. Well introduce you to the young women training to be on the front lines. She was miserable and overweight obviously. How franny, the golden retriever, went from barely walking to a fitness sensation. Meet the Northern California dog and her owner whose weight loss journey has gone viral. Perfect weather for a stroll with your Furry Friends today, breezy, but normal for late april, lots of sunshine. Well see how long this pleasant weather pattern stays in place coming up in the first alert forecast. Take a live look at san jose mineta where new data is showing a drop in travel activity and an overall slow pandemic rebound. A little shaky on the camera, probably the wind. The airport has seen 12 million passengers in the past year, 23 below passenger numbers in 2019. Airport officials blame the drop on the decrease in Business Travel since the pandemic. A huge day for tesla, the electric vehicle companys stock price jumped more than 15 today after announcing the rollout of its Driver Assistance Technology in china. Teslas ceo elon musk was in china over the weekend seeking government approval to launch the socalled full selfdriving software. China also announced that teslas model 3 and y vehicles have now passed the countrys Data Security requirements. Those vehicles had been barred from entering some parts of the country over spying and Data Security concerns. Tesla helped fuel a strong day for u. S. Markets with all three major indices up today. Tesla has also announced it will allow other vehicles to use its charging network in california. Max darrow spoke to one long time owner about why it could be a game changer. This is our electric Vehicle Association booth. Reporter this was jerry pahorskis pov showing off the numerous evs on display at cupertinos recent earth day celebrations. Some teslas and and theres my 2002 rav4 ev. Reporter yup, you heard that right, a 2002 ev. So hes had some skin in the ev game longer than most people. Well, im kind of an environmental nut, i guess. Reporter between more californians switching to evs by the week and Car Manufacturers releasing more ev options, things are changing substantially. These are increasing demand for charging and the supply has to match that. Right now theyre behind. I think theres a shortage of chargers. Reporter he was thrilled when he heard about a Public Private Partnership Development that would pump up the ev charging infrastructure. Its a good thing. Its about time. Reporter tesla is opening its fast chargers to nontesla vehicles. Governor newsom pulled up to one in a ford ev to explain more about it. This is an effort to build out the infrastructure in the state of california that currently totals 105,000 electric vehicle chargers for public use and about 10,000 of these super charging stations. Reporter california Natural Resources secretary wade crowfoot called the move a game changer. Weve exceeded our targets to bring on these nonpolluting vehicles much faster than originally anticipated. Given this partnership, the future is very bright for electric vehicles. If you have an electric vehicle and live in an apartment where they dont have charging as part of the parking garage or Parking Facilities they have, then you do rely on the public charging stations. Reporter of the public chargers out there, pahorski tips his hat to tesla infrastructure. The tesla ones are in great shape, well maintained, very fast and have a lot of them in many locations. Reporter an important step, as california surges towards an ev future. Having more chargers available is a great thing. Reporter california has a plan in place to phase out the sale of new gasolineonly vehicles by 2035. The process begins, however, in 2026 with a mandate that 35 of new cars sold must be electric or plugin hybrids. A federal investigation is looking into fords handsfree driving technology. The system is called blue cruise and its been involved in two recent fatal crashes involving stationary vehicles. Blue cruise is only available on certain roads and uses a camerabased Monitoring System to determine driver attentiveness. Caltrans continues to escort convoys today on highway 1 after a section collapsed in big sur last month. The onehour twice a day convoys will escort commuting vehicles past rocky creek road. Crews will continue to make repairs on that stretch of roadway. Cal tran says they are working to stabilize the edge of that roadway in the southbound lane. Get ready for a summer without el nino. The word from Noaas Climate Prediction Center says el nino has been weakening and will likely vanish over the next few months, but that doesnt mean it wont be hot. Noaa says a large portion of the western u. S. Will likely be warmer than normal. The agency says the west has warmed more than any other region of the u. S. The last three decades or so. Lets check in with first alert chief meteorologist paul heggen. As chris farley once told us, el nino in spanish means the nino. La nina will take over next winter which means el nino. Near normal temperatures tomorrow and then things warm up, not a full fledged heat dome, but an air of High Pressure will weigh down on top of us, really squish the marine layer resulting in above normal high temperatures wednesday, thursday, friday. Then a whole different pattern kicks in for the weekend, much cooler and potentially even showery. Well talk more about that momentarily. Now looking outside, blue skies from the mark hopkins hotel, 60s and 70s, the warm spot santa rosa at 73 degrees, cool spot downtown San Francisco right at 60, all these numbers pretty close to typical. Later on tonight with clear skies our temperatures cool off efficiently. If you head out to the coliseum for the as game, temperature at game time in about an hour and a half lower half of the 60s, steadily dropping to the 50s with clear skies and temperatures eventually level off in the 40s by early tomorrow morning. The very warmest spot stay right around 50 degrees, 2 to 4 degrees below average for highs tomorrow. Well make up for it in the afternoon with temperatures running close to or slightly above average. Mostly low 70s in the santa clara valley, inland and the east bay, lower 70s as well, 60s around the bay, close to 70 degrees for fremont and redwood city. Along the coast not quite that warm, but normal, 59 degrees at half moon bay, mid60s for San Francisco, upper 60s for oakland and the north bay will reach the low to mid70s by tomorrow afternoon. Inland temperatures, a lot of 80s by the time wednesday and thursday roll around. Lets look at the tenday temperature trend for san jose, a little ride on the temperature roller coaster the next several days, reaching close to 80 degrees and a big drop to the upper 60s by saturday and sunday. The cooldown is associated with a decent chance of rain showers, not usually something we associate with early may weather. Because its 2024, of course, the rain chance will correspond with the weekend. The Weather Prediction Centers estimate for total rainfall is pretty impressive for early may, about a half inch of rain on the high side of the estimate for inland parts of the north bay and in the santa cruz mountains. On the low end a 0. 1inch or less. This is not a typical wintertime storm system, but its impressive for early may. Theres a lot of disagreement in the various forecast models how this shakes out. Well look at a couple of those at 5 30. Lets look at the sevenday forecast, temperatures reaching around 80 degrees inland wednesday, thursday, friday, upper 70s and low 80s and theres a drop and chance of showers in the forecast for saturday, remaining cool into early next week. Temperatures around the bay will undergo a similar transformation, warming up a few days and then dropping off, but its more of a gentle ride with the warmest days in the mid70s and the lower half in the mid60s. Along the coast low 60s wednesday and thursday and then youre only in the mid50s with a pretty good chance of showers for the first half of the weekend. Were only at monday. Its a long way down the line to reach the weekend. Dont cancel any outdoor plans. Just be flexible. If this year has taught us anything, its to be flexible when it comes to weather. See you soon. Up next, a showcase for winemakers from underrepresente d groups, well meet a bay Area Business owner who says she wants to bring wine country to oakland. Women only make up 5 of the industry and people of color make up probably 3 . Plus why a San Francisco bays home goods store was hit with a record fine from the federal trade commission. As the bay area works to bounce back from whats been a really difficult past few years, National Small business week puts the focus on Small Businesses. In oakland despite concerns over crime and empty office buildings, a study found the amount of foot traffic in that city was actually up by over 20 . Da lin spoke to Small Businesses trying to get the foot traffic in their doors. Reporter at this downtown oakland bar its wine with a twist. Women only make up 5 of the industry and people of color make up probably 3 and black producers make up 1 and the Wine Industry is a multibillion dollar industry. I wanted to reverse engineer the industry and provide retail space specifically for the underrepresented winemakers and give them a platform to my audience. Reporter Business Owner alicia kidd says all the wines in her tasting room are made by women and people of color. I wanted to bring the wine country, napa and sonoma, to oakland. Reporter cocoa wine shop and bar opened in december 2022. Alicia says business initially got off to a very strong start. With the crime my business has decreased in sales, but its slowly trending upward now that spring and summers coming. Reporter as oakland kicks off Small Business week, many owners say the biggest challenge is crime. Some experienced repeated burglaries and robberies. It has impacted my business in a sense that customers are afraid to come to oakland. So ive had to invest thousands of thousands of dollars in marketing to get customers to come. Reporter elected leaders say they hear them and are working to reduce crime. During the Small Business week the city will host free classes and networking events. This workshop sunday focused on digital marketing. Im somebody who is getting started, so im very new. Im trying to figure out what social media platforms to leverage, how to just get your content out there. Im working on growing my business, working on my website and improve my social media presence. Because its my business, i have to do it all. So i came here to learn more about what goes into those. Reporter many say they chose to invest in the city and they still believe in oakland. What adds color and vibrancy to the city is actually the Small Businesses and people behind them. Reporter alicia agrees and says thriving businesses is a reflection of a thriving city. Increase safety, invest in security. I think thats number one. I think safety is the ultimate concern because customers are not going to come if their cars are being broken into. Reporter Business Owners continue to urge people outside of oakland to come shop and dine here. Some businesses will even reimburse lyft and uber rides with the purchase. As for how other cities are faring when it comes to foot traffic, in San Francisco visits to downtown dropped more than 21 between march last year and this past february, but san jose saw a jump of 28 in the same time frame. Plans or hold to change a San Francisco intersection where a family of four was killed near the west portal muni station. The mayor and supervisor myrna melgar had proposed changes to the intersection, but businesses protested the plan. Now the city says theyre forming the welcoming west Portal Committee that will have businesses and Business Owners, neighbors, and city officials to meet over the next few months to come up with a plan for the fall. Up next, a wild shootout leaving at least three Law Enforcement officers dead this afternoon, what sparked the frightening confrontation. What do we do about the School District that is continuing to fail our children . Students in one bay area School District repeatedly targeted with racially motivated attacks, what parents are now demand thissing. Youll meet the Northern California veterinarian student who adopted an extremely overweight dog, how she helped franny go from fat to fit while becoming social media famous at the same time. I was on winter break right now at 5 30, a tragic day in north carolinas largest city, a shootout killing three Law Enforcement officers. William sonoma admits to mislabeling its products, the record settlement with the ftc. A live look at San Francisco where some children say theyve been the target of repeated racial harassment or worse at school. Those concerns within the San Francisco Unified School District now has drawn the attention of the naacp. Andrea nakano spoke to Community Advocates who say they want safe spaces and theyre willing to sue to get them