Morning. I know. It makes me happy i got to work nice and early. Heres something new, instagram, all 3 of you, all 3 of us have in instagram, and australia something new, users will no longer see the total number of lights on the photo. I was saying what . The new feature starting on under is a trial run in the social Media Company to make people feel more comfortable posting photos, the idea is to push followers to focus on the content rather than the recognition, the former number of likes said to be replaced by the number one user who like the post followed by others, instagram has already rolled the feature out in canada and hopes to take it worldwide. I dont know about you, i like it, you posted something. I do like it, but a lot of child psychologists point out this may help especially with younger users in teens because there is an overwhelming pressure to gauge their popularity based on the number of likes, this takes away that element. I need the elevation. We dont need the li
For the afternoon today. Parade tomorrow, actually, Saint Patricks day on sunday. It all looks good. Your view outside from the east bay hills, not a cloud in the sky out there about to be a beautiful sunrise here. Soon. Still under a high wind warning up in the Sierra Nevada and wind advisories for upper elevations in the bay area. But were right at the tail end of the stronger winds, 30 to 40 Miles Per Hour. Gusts this morning by your drive home from work later on today, waving goodbye to the wind for the weekend. Temperatures are actually really mild to start happen. Bay alameda sf san jose, even santa rosa, all in the low 60s right now. Hardly even need that extra. There. And this afternoon, you definitely wont be needing it with those low 70s lots of sunshine. Its going to be feeling really good of more in your weekend forecast ahead right now. All right, john, thank you for that a green screen for today. So no green for me, but green in spirit. If youre traveling this morning, th
Coming to San Francisco beginning in may. The new plan to bring more people and more fun back to the city. Good evening. This is nbc bay area news. Tonight, im raj mathai. Dreams are coming true this evening, well show you how a local kid is celebrating after he was just drafted into the nfl. Thats just ahead. But we start tonight with the growing number of protests at College Campuses across the country. Students at stanford are now joining the movement. Take a look. There are now tents set up in the main quad at stanford. Students are refusing to leave until their universities cut financial ties with companies and organizations that support israel and call for a ceasefire in gaza. Protesters previously camped out on the stanford campus for more than 100 days. This was a few months ago. They were there for 24 7 for months before they came to an agreement with the university to leave. Back in february. Tonight, hundreds of students are back at stanford. Our nbc crew is also there monit
In the news a Philadelphia Police officer is off the job and facing charges for allegedly assaulting his girlfriend, and a former firefighter that responded to the twin towers on 9 11 is new yorks newest lottery winner. But the big story on action news is the excitement building for the 4th of July Celebrations, from the shore to the city there is no shortage of parties and fireworks tomorrow. Preparations are well underway. Action News Reporter Katherine Scott with the latest from the ben franklin parkway. The setup is well underway here, the setup is here for the concert and people are ready to celebrate. Today the rivera family is out for a skate near the art museum and ben franklin parkway will be packed but like many they just find their spot and gaze upward. People for some reason thought there was nothing going on no pushing and no shoving everybody is getting along. Crews are out building the stage for the 4 and of july jam and there is still work to be done for the concert. Be
How hot is it now . I think we are okay the rest of the evening. Tomorrow afternoon and evening kind of a different story. This time tomorrow we will be tracking showers and storms, and speaking of hot it is pretty toasty. In fact, today the first day we hit 90 in the last 13. Little stat surprised me, actually. It is still 90 at national but mainly upper 80s 88 in manassas and into frederick and gaithersburg. 91 in fredericksburg. We factor in humidity and notice the numbers values dont change much really, because it is not that humid out. 3 00 i tweeted something out and some heat index were upper 90s. 93 downtown. Straight temp 90 and factor in humidity only to 93. That is not crazy hot actually. 93 in manassas, feels like 90 in martinsburg. Hot but not crazy. On the fuch fuf tomorrow morning futurecast, tomorrow morning, most the showers back in the mountains 6 30. By 9 00 most the showers west of town. I think most of of us have a dry commute to work. Little shower activity, culpe