Closure of a major south bay freeway. Well talk about how long the closure lasts, how long your reroute might be. Good morning to you. Thanks for joining us for our midday newscast. Im marcus washington. That sparetheair alert now extending into tomorrow, which will mark the fourth straight day that lingering smoke from the wildfires burning up north once again making for a poor air quality condition. Nbc bay areas Ginger Conejero saab is live in San Francisco tracking the conditions at the city by the bay as we head into the weekend. Well check with her in just a few moments. First, kari, this morning we thought we were pretty much in the clear going into the weekend. But the alert extended. This is happening gradually, and were seeing it clearing out a little more slowly than wed like for our weekend plans. Lets go look at our hourbyhour smoke model forecast showing that surface smoke. Youre not seeing it as bad as it was, but still that light blue hue there indicates the air quality
Were tracking other stories, including the smoke that is still sticking around. Thankfully, we have good news as we head into the weekend. Also, a poker player from the bay area said he had colon cancer, raised thousands of dollars, turns out it was a lie. Our Jodi Hernandez is talking to those who know him. And a fight in the stands. Look at this. We are making calls right now about the 49er fans who got into this brawl at last nights game. Lets go ahead and begin with a warning for anyone planning to drive through the south bay this weekend. A san jose road Improvement Project is likely to back up traffic all weekend long. Northbound highway 87 is shutting down starting tonight, so cal tra in,s can repave the major stretch of road. What all of us need to know. Ian, take us through whats going to be happening. Reporter yeah, audrey, first off, you can see the evening commute is well under way. As you said at the top of the show, in about four and a half hours, this road is not going t
Speaker comes to campus. Riot rd. But then now it 11 00, security as a conservative speaker comes to kansas campus. Right police stood guard but poorly fist started flying. We have coverage of the free speech showdown starting tonight with joe vazquez. You can see behind me the barricades are still up but the police have finally gone home minutes ago. A large demonstration, and one person appears to have been injured. We will show you some video here now around 9 30. A womanly injured and appeared to be bleeding. The Police Officer surrounded her quickly and made room for an ambulance. A witness tells me she was expressing her support for ben shapiro who was speaking here when she was attacked. She was holding up a sign, so she was up here holding it up and someone came up and yanked the sign from her and she chased after him. People try to get involved to break it up. A crowd of demonstrators took over this part of the campus and about 1000 people right here crowding up the streets. T
Barricades are still up but the police have finally gone home minutes ago. A large demonstration, and one person appears to have been injured. We will show you some video here now around 9 30. A womanly injured and appeared to be bleeding. The Police Officer surrounded her quickly and made room for an ambulance. A witness tells me she was expressing her support for ben shapiro who was speaking here when she was attacked. She was holding up a sign, so she was up here holding it up and someone came up and yanked the sign from her and she chased after him. People try to get involved to break it up. A crowd of demonstrators took over this part of the campus and about 1000 people right here crowding up the streets. They flooded it and it started growing as the night went on. The sheer volume of officers in riot beer on and off campus was quite quite dramatic. A substantial portion of campus was surrounded by police. Folks who went inside to see shapiro had to get through a metal detector. O
Back to the green. Over at the bay bridge toll plaza, a few cars in the cash lanes. Other than that, your ride is smooth sailing into San Francisco. In berkeley, a woman punched over politics. This is just a glimpse of the tension during massive protests over a conservative authors visit to campus. After we saw this woman lying on the ground, a witness told us how things turned violent. She was holding up a sign that was, like, pro shapiro so she was up here, like, holding it up and then someone came out from the crowd and yanked the sign from her and then, um, she chased after him and then, um, people started to get involved to try to, like, break it up but then, um, she got punched. The crowd of protestors got bigger as the night wore on with people eventually taking on bancroft avenue by sunset. They outnumbered police but the presence of so many officers in riot geier was striking. The area was protected by barriers and metal detector. You had to have a ticket. There was a lot of n