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Right now at 11 00, illegal sideshows in the suburbs, these wild and reckless are now taking over intersections in our smaller cities. Were talking Mountain View, palo alto, all of them over the weekend. That has a lot of people concerned. Nbc bay area is Jocelyn Moran is in Mountain View. It is becoming much more common that you just dont expect. Reporter one of the sideshows from over the weekend happened here in Mountain View. You can still see some of the tires skidmarks here tonight. Police say the cars took off shortly after they got here and that one person was hurt. Sideshow after sideshow, in Mountain View police say it happened shortly before midnight on saturday night on bernardo avenue and east middlefield road. Video shows at least 100 people looking on and drivers and their cars with passengers out the window. 120yearold woman from pittsburgh broke her ankle. In palo alto, a similar sideshow, tonight on page bill road and coyote hill road, tires skidmarks and several circles can be seen. And in menlo park, this video shows cars coming dangerously close to spectator saturday night, it happened in an area with home and businesses. A couple of people who live nearby didnt want to go on camera but tell us it lasted only a few minutes before police got there. Others in the area says that doesnt happen often here. Every now and then you will see a car going fast on the corners and whatnot. But at the sideshow with a bunch of multiple people. Took adding that he thinks they can be very dangerous. Showing kids can hit, a lot of these cars on the turns. Doing donuts, just hitting the cars. And it is sad, it is sad to see. But what can you do . Reporter kevin is worried someone walking could get hurt, even though it is rare, the concern of safety in the suburbs, we reached out to Mountain Views mayor and police. Police tonight had no one available to talk. Later that same night, more sideshows. This time, in oakland and off the bay bridge. Driver stopped traffic on westbound 80 for around 20 minutes before it chp detained two minors and arrested two adults. Adults say that sideshows are outright dangerous. For the safety of the public, and we would ask that those who are considering or actually engaging in these activities would think twice. Reporter Jocelyn Moran, nbc bay area news. Out of the east bay, an intense firefight on the way right now in hayward. This is video just into the newsroom. You can see the flames and the thick black smoke filling the sky. Firefighters say this is a commercial building between the intersection of hall. Crews are in defensive mode right now, still trying to stop the spread. Of course we will keep you posted throughout the newscast. Tends moments in the posey tube. This is one of the tunnels that connects oakland and alameda. You can see the backup here traffic to a halt around 7 30 this evening. Cars were essentially trapped while firefighters battled a pickup truck fire inside the tunnel ultimately the posey tube was evacuated, crews used large fans to clear out the smoke. That, back open at this hour. Tesla is settling a high profile lawsuit involving an apple engineer who died in a car crash in 2018. And at the center of the case, teslas autopilot system. The legal move just as jury selection and the trial starts this week. Pete sirota with why some legal experts leave tesla decided to settle. Reporter the fact that a settlement was reached here suggests that tesla did see exposure if this case went to a jury. Reporter legal analyst Stephen Clark is explaining why he believes tesla decided the wrongful death lawsuit. In march of 2018, he died in a car crash along 101 and Mountain View when his bottleneck crashed into a barrier when the autopilot switched on. The ntsb said was at least partly to blame for the crash, possible Driver Distraction and bubble medic road construction. The following year, the family sued tesla over the incident, the company exaggerated the capabilities of itself driving technology. During the 2019 press conference lawsuit, wongs widow express the pain over her husband and the father to her two kids. Please not just family, friends. Reporter reached out to tesla for comment on the settlement but have yet to hear back and the company has filed to seal the terms of the settlement from the public. What tesla doesnt want to do is have that information in the Public Domain because this is not the only litigation involving the autopilot across the country. Reporter despite the case not going to reporter , clark believes there could be a Silver Lining when it comes to driver safety. I think this will be a learning experience and i think we will continue to see this technology and the way it is marketed will also be reviewed. Reporter in the east bay, pete suratos, nbc bay area news. And intersection in south san jose has reopened following a single car crash that afternoon. It happened at monterey and metcalf road near 101, you can see our sky ranger overhead. Paramedics rushed the driver and a juvenile passenger to the hospital with major injuries. The intersection was blocked off so officers could investigate. A member of the San Francisco Sheriffs Department is facing multiple violent felony charges. 49yearold Deputy Sheriff jonathan was arraigned today in connection to a Domestic Violence case. His exgirlfriend reported the alleged abuse later this month after fighting a tracking device on her car. Now she claims he strangled her and later attacked her at work. Charges include Domestic Violence, battery and assault. The officer has pled not guilty, he will be in court next week. The chp is still looking for the gunman in the freeway shooting last friday night, it happened on the on ramp from ashby avenue to interstate 80 in berkeley. Chp says the 22nd freeway shooting of the year in the bay area. If that case continues, we can see 80 shootings this year. And that number would actually be a 27 decrease from last year. The search continues for the driver of an suv involved in a deadly crash in concord a nineyearold girl died and four of her family members have major injuries. That suv veered off 680 at the 242 split early yesterday morning, it rolled multiple times before landing upside down in the dirt median. The young girl who died was ejected from the car. Chp says it appears at least three of the passengers, including that little girl, were not wearing seatbelts. The driver took off on foot, we do not know the relationship of the driver to the victims. How to revitalize the downtown areas of some california cities. The first meeting of a new committee that is focused on downtown recovery across the state. London breed weighed in along with the mayors of south beach, longview and riverside. Recovering from the pandemic. Office buildings and storefronts. The mayors addressed several possible solutions, part of which includes changing the narrative around what is happening in major california cities. Others are consistently trying to define who we are and the media in a very negative way, and it is important that we talk about the facts and the truth of who we are and create our own narrative of excitement, prosperity, and a move toward the future. The committee will hold meetings throughout the year to discuss further revitalization strategies. Soon shut down as part of a financial takeover by j. P. Morgan chase. They will be closing may 24th. Customers will get an alert on their account converted to j. P. Morgan over memorial day weekend. The first public downfall began last year after the Credit Rating agencies downgraded it over concerns that the institution loaned out more money than it actually had. Signature bank and Silicon Valley bank also failed during that banking crisis which started last march. The new j. P. Morgan branch headquartered in San Francisco will open on pine street this summer. Did it live up to the hype . Tonight, theres still a buzz in the air after the total Solar Eclipse. Something that we wont see around here for another 21 years. This is what it looked like in maine. You see it in totality. The moon passing between the earth and the sun, entirely blocking it. This is a timelapse video. Daylight turning into darkness. The eclipse moving across more northern texas. Here in the bay area, we got a different view. Heres what we saw, about a 35 percent eclipse. Those safety glasses, still necessary. But if you are one of the 15 states in the path of totality this is a day you will probably never forget and for many, a onceinalifetime experience. Here is nbcs jay gray. Reporter today, millions of americans looking up. Truly a onceinalifetime opportunity. Reporter glasses, telescopes, everyone eager for a view of total darkness during the eclipse the moon passing between the sun and earth. 15 u. S. States. A big moment for us, necessary. Reporter to make the moment even more memorable, a couple in texas exchanging vows during totality. For scientists like dr. Eric christian of nasa. This is an opportunity to share the exciting science of the sun. Reporter part of the solar probe team that is moving into the sun, providing remarkable observations and data about the sun and its impact on earth. Reporter is the earth lives in the atmosphere of the sun, that is terrestrial weather. So to understand that, and very important. Reporter a chance to learn, look, and witness a total Solar Eclipse jay gray, nbc news, junction, texas. No totality for us but the eclipse was still a hot topic around town. Astronomy professors health class outside to get in on the wonder. Special telescopes with solar lenses, everyone could get up and look at a close shot in the moon partially blocking the sun. They also got a look at the sunspot in the middle that is larger than the earth. Im a scifi nerd so seeing this in real life is pretty cool. You see it in tv shows and movies but to see it in real life with glasses is pretty awesome and it was cool to learn about. Reporter the exploratorium pass out 1000 free eclipse viewing glasses but sold 200 more. At least 1200 people watched the partial eclipse there. Inside the exploratorium, mexico and texas, two areas within the zone of totality. A lot of cheering when daylight faded into darkness. So when is the next total Solar Eclipse . If youre willing to travel internationally you can catch one in 2026 for greenland, iceland, and spain. In 2044, we will have a total Solar Eclipse in the northern part of the United States like montana and the dakotas. 2045, a total Solar Eclipse, you can see it here in california to florida. Our coverage of the eclipse continues online at nbcbayarea. Com. You will find photos from all across the country. Wondering what to do with those special protective glasses . You can actually recycle them. It will be sent to another continent where they will be reused. For more on that, go to nbcbayarea. Com and click on the eclipse tab. We are back in 60 seconds. Ahead, things getting ugly. San Francisco City attorney is promising if Oakland Airport goes through with the proposed name change. Plus a tricky rescue in Contra Costa County after a horse got trapped in some mud. We will show you what happened next. And we had cold overnight and morning lows over the weekend but that is still going to change. What can we expect in the next couple of hours. But of Club Firefighters are being hailed as heroes tonight after they safely rescued a horse. Contra costa county fire that they posted on x this morning. The horse, named magic and got stuck in some mud and branches on a steep slope. It took them nearly four hours, they finally pulled him out, and took him back to his owner who is anxiously awaiting pick and you could maybe call it a magical moment. The battle is escalating over the renaming of Oakland International airport. San francisco is now threatening legal action if oakland changes its name to San Francisco bay Oakland International airport. Nbcs Terry Mcsweeney has the new details. Reporter San Francisco city leaders tonight are threatening legal action if Oakland International airport leaders go ahead with their plan to try to change its name to San Francisco bay Oakland International airport. Oakland renaming proposal will cause immense confusion and chaos for travelers. Especially visitors who do not speak or read english. Reporter at Oakland International tonight, man from dubai agrees. It might be easier to just have a different name. So oakland bay i think is easy to keep the same name. To reporter spokeswoman kaylee says the proposed name modification will clarify, not confused. The new name identifies where oa k is absolutely located. The change is needed because oakland has lost flights and destinations because people are not aware how close to San Francisco really is. Oakland international today, this traveler sided with San Francisco. There is a Beautiful Community in oakland, it is an incredible city. I think, i think for practical reasons it is is more important for people to know exactly where theyre going when they are picking a flight. Reporter at sfo this traveler sided with oakland. I want people to know exactly, i want them to have the choice and feel like they can fly into either airport and come into the bay area. Reporter oakland officials also flaunting results of the east bay resident. Shows the majority, 51 , are somewhat comfortable with the name change compared to 34 , not too or not at all comfortable. This is not an issue to be decided by a show of hands. Reporter the current proposal also infringes on sfos trademarks. Sfo began operating almost a century ago as San Francisco International Airport or San Francisco airport through most of its history and we have had these trademarks for so long that they are incontestable under federal law. Reporter meets on thursday to take up a name change idea and i could be the trigger for San Francisco to file this lawsuit. City attorney tells me monetary damages could be a part of it. At Oakland International airport, Terry Mcsweeney, nbc bay area news. Honoring indigenous history. A bilingual street sign was released in lafayette. Lafayette circle, also a new utility box wrapped that features illustrations of Indigenous Women and Land Development statement. The goal is to show respect to the areas native people. This is a way that we can honor our past and know that we have taken land away from our ancestors and that we acknowledge and honor their presence here through their descendents today. Reporter city Council Adopted the Statement Last year as part of a yearlong history. Dungeness crab season is getting cut short again this year in the bay area. The season started late and today it ended early. The commercial crab season usually begins in november but this year was delayed until january. And that it last less than three months. The shorter the window, an effort to protect humpback whales during crab season. Migrating whales sometime get tangled in the crab gear. Our meteorologist, looking at that temperatures, 58. That is pretty warm for one of our nights. Compared to the frosted visors that we had where we had 30s as we went to bed and woke up. Todays daytime high was 72 degrees for san jose and it is just the beginning. So lets give you a tour of the bay area and see what our daytime highs look like throughout the afternoon. San jose right now enjoyed some pure conditions. Heres what it looks like right now in San Francisco. If you look at the high temperatures this afternoon, we get a high of 66 and noticed the wind speeds have significantly calmed down and heres another look into parts of oakland. 53 degrees right now. Saw a high of 56. Also nice and calm. Tran56 right now, but we saw a high this afternoon of 74. Lets take it to the mountains because tahoe has some snowy conditions coming up yet again, i will get to that in a second. I want to show you 28 degrees right now and it is really beautiful and calm. Thanks to this high pressure. Showcasing itself on satellite radar. Youre thinking, i dont see anything. That is the highpressure brick you can see the definition right here where you are noticing that dry orange glow without any cloud cover, high pressures would begin to settle in, helping warm us up just to give you an idea perspective wise in san jose, at this hour, right about seven degrees warmer and into the Early Morning hours, we are also going to see those 40s and 50s. I really dont think you are going to need any sort of heater turned on. Just some extra layers. Aside from that, really mild overnight lows until the Early Morning. As far as your daytime highs for tomorrow, it is going to start to bump up into the upper 70s for los gatos. Check out hayward, 75. Enter oakland, San Francisco, Half Moon Bay are getting toward the 70s but by wednesday we are going to be seeing 80s on the map and this is going to include parts of the south but also the trivalley, check out concord, 82. 80 degrees and if you notice even around the bay, the peninsula and San Francisco we are going to be seeing some 70s on the map. The longrange outlook right now, you see this high pressure, warm tuesday through thursday as you look at the timestamp right on the corner there on friday, we are monitoring the arrival of a low pressure system. Right now circulating a bit more toward central and Southern California but this placement could change. It could go further north. It does kind of make its way up further north we will see a winded tree for the sierra and we will also see a drop in temperatures. Erin wise, it will be closer to the time frame. But for now it does look like the biggest impact noticeable right now, anyways, will be greater saturday, cooldown by friday in San Francisco and then the roller coaster of temperatures of 80s. Roll the dice. Lets not talk about saturday, lets talk about the next 48 hours. Thank you. Up next, big changes may be coming to paradise. Why your next trip to hawaii might be the last one in a rental home or condo. Have you registered to vote . Our sister stations will be answering all questions about registering to vote for the president ial election. The call former President Trump lost the last minute bid to delay his impending new york city has many trial. His attorneys claim that the delay was necessary, the pretrial publicity tainted the jury pool. Today a judge disagreed and also approved the questionnaire for jury selection as well as instructions for prospective jurors in the trial. It really only impacts mr. Trumps request for a delay, not his underlying change of venue motion. The Trial Centers on charges he also falsified Business Records related to alleged hush money payments made on his behalf to adult home star, stormy daniels. The white house is getting Student Debt Relief another shot. President biden unveiling a new plan to cancel what he calls runaway interest on student loans. Under the plan, some borrowers could get up to 20,000 of unpaid interest on their federal student debt forgiven regardless of their income. The program was carefully written to avoid any legal challenges and it could in a fit up to 25 million borrowers. Looking and airbnb in hawaii may soon be a thing in the past. Two bills moving in the state legislator would allow counties across the island to eliminate vacation rentals. Supporters say it would help alleviate hawaiis housing crisis for locals, which is made worse by the wildfires in lahaina. Opponents say it would eliminate jobs and remove a key source of income for many homeowners in hawaii. Up next, a lot of basketball, a lot of celebrating. It was a rocky start for the giants season unlike yesterday, tonight, we did see the giants. He is here in uniform, blake snell making his giants debut. There he is. He missed most of spring training because he was a free agent. More on him in a moment. Pick it up the bottom of the first, the giants only run of the game lamonte wade jr. , rbi double, john dooley scores. Snell gives up three runs, he lasted only three innings. This tied the game 11 and the nationals kept scoring. In the fifth inning, snell was out of the game. Lane thomas with a two run homer. Giants lose 81. The drop to 4 7 on the young season. The final week of the regular season in the nba, the warriors have four games remaining and their 10th and final seed in the playoffs. Tomorrow there in l. A. To play the lakers who are currently the ninth seed. College hoops, did you have uconn and purdue in your bracket . Tonight the title game in arizona and uconn beats purdue 75 to 60. This game wasnt really close at all. The university of connecticut wins it second straight title. The first time in 17 years we have had a backtoback champ. Florida did it back in 2007. On the womens side, the champs got a heros welcome, South Carolina beat iowa yesterday and returned home today. Big rally there on campus, South Carolina finished the season 380. By the way, yesterdays game, almost 18 Million People tuned in, it was the most watched basketball game in five