Frankly, its really thinned out, there were way more tents here just two days ago. In fact, some people are packing up now, but a few others said they plan to wait it out until public works comes in and they think it might be tomorrow when an order to vacate was ordered for showcase square. This came along division street for friday. Last week Health Department came in and found things like hypodermic needles, human waste and garbage. One man stayed here end the freeway for a month. Hes not prepared to leave yet because he hasnt seen any paperwork. Ive never seen any of those. I saw them other places towards businesses and stuff like that. Down here where parking lots are, they havent said anything. Reporter the Homeless Outreach teams have been working to connect he people with services and shelters in the city. I did speak with the department of Public Health today and they tell me that just yesterday they contacted about 40 people in both locations who relocated and this is handled on a case by case basis. I did just speak briefly with one man who was packing up and asked where he might go. He said his plan is to move a few blocks over. Live in san francisco, christie smith, nbc bay area news. Thank you, christie. A fender bender in pinole turned into deadly hitandrun. After midnight a man pulled under the shoulder to check out a damage after a minor accident. A woman speeding and swerving struck and killed the man, and then kept going. An offduty cop saw the whole thing. The 31yearold oakland resident facing several charges, including man slot. New at 6 00, 11yearold girl airlifted to a hospital aft being hit by a car in antioch, this happened about 2 00 near rockford and alamock drive. The girl is expected to be okay. A minor was driving the car that hit the girl . In los angeles, oscars and oscar protests. Dozens of people protesting now about a mile from the award ceremony. The controversy about who is missing from the nominee lineup. Nbc bay area Marianne Favro joining us live. Chris rock went for it, right off the top to the heart of area. Reporter absolutely, wasted no time, came out swinging and devoted his entire opening monologue to the topic of diversity. One point he asked the question Everyone Wants to know is, is hollywood racist . Now, dozens of hollywood celebrities, including will and jada pinkett smith, are boycotting the awards show this year. They are protesting the fact there are no actors of color among this years nominee for the second year if a row. In terms of presenters, this could be the most diverse show ever. Some say theyre counting on host chris rock to draw attention to the academys lack of diversity. This is a conversation weve been needing to have a long time. Youre out of time. We are not going to allow the s oscars to continue. This will be the last night of an allwhite oscar reporter al sharpton was speaking at a protest less than a mile from the dole by theater, where the awards show is now continuing on. He joined about 100 others to question why 18 of films have no black characters at all. In fact, the academy itself is 91 white. Even though half of movie tickets are sold to minorities. Well have to keep an eye on chris rock and see how he continues throughout the rest of the program and how controversial it will be. Marianne favro, nbc bay area news. Certainly doesnt shy away from much. Thank you very much. San jose mother shot and killed. Weve been reporting on this murder all week long. Tonight a big show of support for the victims family. A car wash put together by the community to raise money to the family can pay for funeral expenses in the parking lot of a restaurant in willow glen. The victim, 22yearold stacey act gular went missing two weeks ago. Her body later found in fremont. Very, very sorry. I have one daughter same age and i worry about her. The victims boyfriend has been arrested for the murder. Hell be in court tomorrow, along with an accomplice who police say helped the suspect hide the body. At the car wash, money raised, so far no total on how much. Aftermath of a twocar fender bender that turned into a fivecar accident today. Happened on highway 87 in san jose. Two cars involved were in a lane when a third car accident stop, ran into them, that car spun around, hit two others. The drivered in the first fender bender suffered minor injuries. Fremont, hundred of people from different backgrounds are standing together, hand in hand, in solidarity with the Islamic Society. The event called hands around the moving held at Islamic Society in fremont. The parking lot from the mosque is the saint paul fremont United Methodist church. Both the mosque and church organized the event. Goal to understand each other and move from fear to friendship. Postsunset view, san francisco, partly cloudy skies, gorgeous view, out of the north bay. Look at that, tiburon, 57, increasing clouded to finish off the weekend. Increasing rain chances ahead. Changes and your microclimate forecast coming up. With the primaries under their belt, candidates gearing up for super tuesday. New round of attacks on the campaign trail ahead of this weeks big showdown. Plus not at the Academy Awards but the bay area instead. Honor for a local actor. Aborted just before takeoff. Spas third try at launing a aborted before takeoff. Spacex had to cancel its third try at cape canaveral. Supposed to happen at 4 00 this afternoon. This is video from one before that didnt work out. Pushed back because of a boat turning up inside the no boating zone. Dont want to be near the landing zone. Two minutes to takeoff. Spacex called off the launch. Spacex canceled schedule launches this past wednesday and thursday. An important weekend for california politics. Todays the third and final day of the states Democratic Convention in san jose. Throughout this event, prominent bay area democrats and democrats across the state have now firing up the base. This going on at the San Jose Convention center. Vice President Joe Biden was the keynote speaker yesterday. Today, sam la cardo took the podium. He took on some of trumps issues. This weekend were seeing how California Democrats are leading the charge to expand opportunity for immigrants, broadening access to health care, investing in our childrens future and our schools, make no mistake, you are leading the way. During this state Democratic Convention, delegates picked attorney general Kamala Harris as their candidate to fill the state senators seat for barbara boxer, shell be leaving that seat vacant. Hillary clinton riding high after her landslide victory yesterday. She swept the South Carolina democratic primary, beating challenger Bernie Sanders by a landslide. Now, on the republican side, new polls show that trump is likely to take all of big super tuesday states this week. Nbcs Jennifer Johnson shows us more from washington. Reporter fresh off her huge win in South Carolina, Hillary Clinton worked the crowd sunday in tennessee, a super tuesday state. And i need your help on tuesday. The tennessee primary is really important. Reporter clinton clobbered Bernie Sanders by roughly 50 percentage points. We got decimated, thats what happened, among older africanamericans, it was pathetic. Reporter new nbc wall street journal marist poll shows trump trailing cruise. But trump beating both cruz and marco rubio in georgia and tennessee with 30 , 40 of the votes cruz and rubio are attacking trump. Cruz about taxes. Rubio saying trumps a fraud. The time has come to remove the mask, reveal him, a firstrate con artist trying to carry out the opening con. The fact that donald is terrified to release the taxes suggests theres a bombshell. Reporter trump released the financial records but cant show the tax returns. Until the audit is completed i wouldnt show anything, ill show it as soon as its completed, i have nothing to hide. Reporter cruz is warning the trump train could be unstoppable if the frontrunner rolls to big victories tuesday. Jennifer johnson, nbc news, washington. James franco came back to his hometown of palo alto today to receive a special award. Thats franco today. Did you see that . Yes. Four seasons. Where else . Thats right. Four seasons in palo alto. Awarded the Maverick Spirit award at an event called storytelling reimagined conclave. Franco joined other panelists to discuss storytelling through every day life including cell phone videos and virtual reality. I dont think theres categories for either of those. True. Kind of a new genre these days with technology. Cool to have here. We have a bigger screen here. I was checking it out. Hes a star and draws your attention. He does. You want to hear what he has to say. We want to hear what rob mayeda has to say. Seeing mild conditions continuation of dry pattern for now thats brought the snowpack below the numbers. 110 of average. Statewide average 88 of average to date. Well ahead of last year. Only 19 last year. So, missing out on the snow in the sierra, and our seasonal rainfall averages have come down, 70 to 86 of average. No thanks to february. Still got one extra day coming up tomorrow. But you can see the averages for month should be 2 to 5 inches of rain, instead all locations around the bay area about a third of an inch to an inch of rain. So, not good news. Now entering the Fourth Quarter of rainfall season. This is coming up for march. You can see how things drop off into april and in time. It does look like were going to see rain making a return. You can see at the sevenday forecast. In the meantime, high clouds gorgeous sunset. Heading towards tomorrow morning, pappy, low clouds, cool start. Still need a jacket. Temperatures in the 40s to low 50s. Afternoons are going to feel more like spring. High clouds coming in. Saw the gorgeous sunset. Not bringing any rain. All of the energy still heading off towards the pacific northwest. High pressure continues to divert all of the rainproducing clouds to the north. Instead, left with patchy fog for some morning. 40s and 50s to start. And 70s as early as lunchtime tomorrow. Setting us up for highs in the mid70s for tomorrow. Almost ten degrees warmer than average for places like san jose and san francisco. Youre going to have temperatures through at least wednesday in san jose. Climbing towards mid70s. Trending cooler for the second half of the week. San francisco, upper 60s to 70 for wednesday. Numbers drop as clouds thicken up and we begin to see bigger changes towards the end of the weekend. North bay, highs in the mid70s, santa rosa, pleasanton up to 77 degrees. Dublin, 76, average high is 64 all week long staying above averages. But obviously, trending cooler for the second half of the week as we begin to see the strong high weaken slightly toward the middle part of the week that may allow one system to come through as we approach thursday right there that we think will bring some rain to the north bay and scattered showers south of san francisco. Notice second half of the week, thing is beginning to change up. Showers into the north bay, a lot more rain come saturday. More on that in a moment. You see from the east bay, trivalley, san jose, scattered showers. Temperatures not dropping a lot. Major pattern shift begins as we get into the weekend. Jet stream which at this point on thursday still to our north begins to drive to the south. We think its going to stay that way once we get towards next weekend and likely continue for the following week. There you go, starting to see substantial rains aiming in on the bay area. Our rainfall projection just a little bit to measure in the rain gauges of the thursday system. But by next weekend, talking, looking a half inch to an inch of rain coming in for next saturday and sunday. And another strong system behind that setting up for the following monday and tuesday. Pattern beginning to show signs of change. In case making planned for next weekend, toward the sierra, winter storm warnings, rain into the bay area approaching next weekend. All of this lines up with changes to the long range forecast which take us out of a drier than average pattern to a wetter than average pattern at leaf middle part of the month. Change is starting to take place. Notice especially towards end of the week. Tomorrow, springlike weather around the bay area. Temperatures nearing some records around the south bay. Tracking that for the beginning of the week with rain increasing especially by next weekend. Back to you. Lets hope the rain shows up. Thank you, rob. Lawmakers taking to the skies and taking on your seat size. How we feel about flying. Take vo Uc Berkeley Police a new at 6 00, caught stealing from campus. Uc Berkeley Police aroasted these two, officers say they were prauling around the physics and astronomy building after hours on thursday night. Employees saw them, called police, police show up, found the two they say with burglary tools with stolen items from inside the building and things stolen from the uc irvine campus. Riding caltrain will cost more. Fares went up by 50 cents today. Passes, eightright tickets and monthly passes affected. Fares will stay at 50 of adult ticket prices and corporate cards get you a 15 discount. July it will cost 50 cents more to park in the station. Parking lot. Anyone who flies a lot can tell you, the leg rom on Many Airlines is shrinking. Chuck schumer is proposing one. He wants faa to set guidelines for size of sets so airlines would have to follow. Whoo hoo, amen. Legroom used to be 35 inches. Now it down to an average of 16. 5 inches. Senator says seats are getting narrower, too, shrinking two inches. Nothing bothers people more than the fact theres almost no legroom, average passenger feels like theyre being treated as a sardine, squeezed and squeezed and squeezed. As you pay more and more for tickets at least you ought to get a place to sit where youre not treated like a sardine. Thats from a guy who probably flies maybe first class guy. I empathize with tall people. Uncomfortable for people to fly now. If the faa bill attached to a bill and its expected to be voted on next month. Which is next week. Good for chuck schumer. Mindy bach joining us. Flying is uncomfortable. It is interesting. Seems the box keeps getting smaller and smaller and smaller. A miserable experience. One thing shed rather discuss rather than flights. Absolutely. I was distracted because the sharks are doing something great. Well show that as far as sports unusual site on the links. Pantless man teeing off the honda classic. And its crazy, but you can never get used to this. So much fun. Stephen curry doing the improvable. More on that shot next from the xfinity sportsdesk. Over 9 days all on the road. Co the warriors are finally back home after playing six games over nine days, all on the road. Calling it a successful road trip, thats an understatement. Golden state is proving that it is poised to take a second straight championship. And Stephen Curry his second straight mvp title. You cannot see this shot enough. Overtime against a tough Oklahoma City team. Curry launched his 14th threepointer and swished it from 38 feet out. Currys a 50 shooter from 30 feet or more. The rest of the nba is hitting only 8 of those shots. When i got the ball i knew coach said weve got to stop, you know, and a clean rebound push it, i looked up, i got the ball, its about five, six seconds left, and the way they had were shuffling around in transition i was able to kind of go at my own pace and rise up and i got my feet set and, you know, watched it go in. To be able to pull it out was awesome. The effort in the second half was incredible. I know we got outrebounded but we were battling and obviously what steph did was, you know, whats the expression from the ridiculous to the sublime, like thats thats where we are at this point. I stand corrected. His 12th threepointer. Still not bad. Final round of the honda classic in tampa. Gary woodland in the sixth tee shot, takes off his pants, goes from the water to the sand. Nice recovery. Hed get dressed and go about his day. Adam scott started the day tied for the lead in the bunker par 4 12th. Responds with amazing shot over the trees. And that was good enough for birdie. Scott wins by one shot. His 12th career pga tour win. With nhls trade deadline coming up at noon monday, sharks opened a roster spot waiving mike brown. Move is not surprising. Appearing in 2 of last 13 games. San jose in vancouver facing rivgles for the first time. First period, great move. Martin jones comes up with the save. Look at that. And this gape was scoreless after the first period. Opening minute of the second period, justin braun takes down Jannik Hansen and gets two minutes for interference. Yes, he does take him down. Jones is great on the penalty kill. After the penalty elapses, braun trying to rush back on the ice and sedin crams it in. Canucks take early lead 10. Patrick marleau scored moments ago to make it 31 sharks in the third period. Senior day for the cals mens basketball team. Bears host the trojans for the final home game. With a win, cal would be perfect 180. Right now the bears are up by 19. Cal still has a chance to grab a share of the conference title. More news after the break. Disadvantaged kids recieved a sn oakland. Terry 2ot free haircuts at r disadvantaged children received a special treat in oakland. Free hair cuts at a local barber shot. Children under age 12 got to sit in the barbers chair on jefferson street, uptown oaklanden event called kids day at shop organized by two fathers at lotus bloom play group. Folks can come in, spend time, doing a variety of learning activities with the kids. The ideas to engage more isolated families and get more men involved and young boys involved into our programs. There are seven locations throughout oakland. Thats cool. Wellbehaved kids getting haircuts. Camera was on, dad was there. Thank you for choosing nbc bay area news. Back at 11 00. Doug mcconnell hello, im doug mcconnell, and weve got some great discoveries for you along the open road. Doug well dive beneath the bay in street clothes to see colorful creatures up close, and walk all the way from the sierra to the sea indoors. Spend time with a bay area legend on the ranch he loved, with people who keep his legacies alive. Roam the ridges of our region on a tantalizing trail. And meet a photographer whose still and moving images shimmer on the screen. [music] [music] doug from the sierra to the sea, rivers, the delta,