The alternate routes to take to avoid those backups. Plus, targeting cars with drivers still inside. The worrying trend causing robberies to skyrocket even more in oakland. Also, the warning from police, the steps you should take to protect your items. This is today in the bay. Here we go, friday morning. And good morning to you. Im marcus washington. And im laura garcia. Lets start out with a look at the forecast right here on the cusp of the weekend. Forecaster Cinthia Pimentel is tracking what we can expect. We still have the wind, it was a breezy morning coming into the studio today. It will calm down later into the second half of friday and into the weekend. A beautiful start overlooking the Performing Arts Center in san jose. In San Francisco, we get a shake of the camera at times. The wind gusts still out there, around 25 to 35 miles an hour locally, and in the ridges still gusting from about 50 to 60. As i take the timestamp forward, the afternoon calms down and we are in for a nice weekend with warm temperatures and that sunshine sticking around for low to mid70s. Ill talk about that and then well stay dry into next week. Ill show you the changes possible in the weather pattern in the extended forecast. Back to you. A shutdown for a major freeway in the east bay, caltrans closing southbound 680 in pleasanton. Its said to cause a lot of folks to possibly change plans. Our mike inouye shows us some of those workarounds, but, first, Ginger Conejero saab is live with us for how drivers could feel that impact. Reporter thats right. Good morning, marcus and laura. Were right by the 680, starting tonight a stretch will be closed from the 580 680 connecter down to highway 84. Work on this for this weekend will make things move faster, but its going to impact more than the flow of traffic. Some businesses are not happy with this, including some that we did speak to, especially because its happening during st. Patricks day weekend. People from the south bay who are planning to head to dublin for st. Patricks day activities are among those who will be impacted as they try to return to the south bay. The owner of boscos bones and brew says this weekend was supposed to be big, it was supposed to be their big grand opening party, but the closure has changed that. The closure is definitely going to hurt our business, so were moving it to another weekend. Reporter caltrans says this closure will replace a portion of the deteriorated roadway with new pavement and closing it for the weekend will accomplish the amount of work that 40 nighttime closures would. Caltrans has put up maps of detours on its website. Mike is going to go into that a little more. Ill send it back to marcus and mike for now. Thanks, ginger. A lot of folks who have to drive in this area want to know, how do i get around all of this. We normally talk about the exclamation point, niles, its got the oneway Traffic Control. So, marcus, this is the portion that ginger just talked about with the closure, the purple from the dublin interchange toward sunol, this section will be closed off starting tonight at about 8 00 i would say avoid the area. Alternates are easy if youre coming through the general area, you can head over to 580 and take 84 back and join on with 680. Or take the longer route through the dublin grade, Castro Valley y, down 880 and then back over. Complication from your typical reroute, highway 84 does have oneway Traffic Control, so thats a longer route and theres Traffic Control. You may want to head down to mission. 580 to 84 is an easier drive, but 84 will get very congested, and folks heading to the dublin interchange and the dublin festival for st. Patricks day, that will be a problem. Well talk more as i talk about the influence it will have on you. New developments, one person behind bars after a deadly cartocar shooting in fremont. It happened just before 10 00 a. M. About a week ago on march 5th. Investigators say Sylvester Carver shot another driver near stevenson boulevard. The victim was taken to the hospital and later died. On wednesday, Police Arrested carver at a home in richmond. He was booked into the santa rita jail on several charges. In just a few hours, a suspect accused in the deadly stabbing of a tech executive in San Francisco is due back in court. Momeni is accused of killing bob lee last april. Lee was the founder of cash app. According to court documents, it happened during a dispute about momenis sister. This morning a preliminary hearing is set to happen ahead of a possible jury trial. Well, the Oakland Police department is warning about an uptick in smashandgrab robberies specifically targeting drivers while they are still inside their cars. According to Oakland Police, robberies are up by 32 compared to this time last year and the current trend involves suspects targeting drivers while they are sitting in their car. Police say when the driver stops the car, that suspects break the passenger side window and steals any belongings they can get their hands on. One person telling us they witnessed firsthand a couple weeks ago. You hear honks and someone crack the window open while theyre at a stop sign. Literally someone pulling up to the stop sign, someone cracks the window, grabs the backpack and theyre out. Oakland City Council Member dan kalb releasing a statement, saying, quote, crime in oakland has seen a dramatic increase. We must take a range of actions that will provide a comprehensive approach that includes prevention, intervention and enforcement strategies. Opd says that it is actively investigating this current trend, and also reminding individuals to store any items in your trunk and call 911 if you feel like youre being followed. Turning to decision 2024, were expecting another update in the very close race to replace longtime congresswoman anna eshoo. Sam liccardo is still in first place, but this morning evan low is ahead of joe simitian by just 63 votes. The top two candidates will advance to the november ballot. More than 23,000 ballots still need to be counted. The next update happens today at 5 00. New overnight, severe storms slamming the midwest, causing a lot of damage. Now, in ohio, we know at least two people are dead, this after a possible tornado hit a Mobile Home Park about 60 miles outside of columbus. Nearby, at the indiana border, several homes were damaged or destroyed. Today in the bays Cinthia Pimentel is joining us now. Where are these storms headed next . Marcus, the good news is for now, we dont have any thunderstorm or tornado warnings or watches to be aware of. Look at our satellite and radar imagery just extending from texas all the way to ohio last night, and the threat continues through parts of alabama and atlanta as the storm continues to push south. Tornado alley is really prone to tornadoes as we go into spring and the summer months, really any time of the year if the conditions are right. Because you have opposing air masses, cold air coming in from canada that mixing with warm, moist air from the gulf of mexico and that creates that instability to give us some storms like this. So as far as the day goes today, just some really heavy rain to watch out for as the National Weather service goes out to survey some of the damage out there from the last nights storms. Back in the bay area, we have clear skies for our friday plans. Ill walk you through the microclimate forecast, what we can expect temperaturewise and winds. For now, ill send it to mike looking ahead for weekend travel disruptions. Starting tonight. You talked about clear weather and thats great for drivers and also great for construction. The problem was, the first few times they tried to do this, they couldnt have the closure because the rain was a problem for construction. So they postponed it. Now south 680 will be closed all weekend starting tonight, just after 8 00 p. M. I would avoid the area. Here is your alternate that i talked about just a few minutes ago. And that will affect folks heading from the south bay to the st. Patricks day on saturday in dublin, heading back down will be a complication, adding flow to highway 84. Thats typically a commute direction, but on the weekend that will be a continued issue for slowing. Highway 84 will get impacted the most. You can see the numbers delayed out of livermore and pleasanton and joining with 680 where its reinstated for southbound traffic. Another disruption in the east bay, the richmond line, the red line out of el cerrito to richmond, that section will be blocked because of major track work. That will impact folks who are traveling toward the airport because theres a line shift and the red line out of this area will be out of service. Go to bart. Gov for details. If you have yet to buy some of americas favorite cookies, youre in luck. Ahead, the extended girl scout season. Plus, its a special day for mctrouble at mcdonalds. Its tearing up my heart when im with you tearing up fans hearts, a special surprise as nsync returns to the stage once again. The performance and what brought the group back together. Stay with us. Youre watching today in the bay. Good friday morning. The time is 5 13, and it is finally friday in fremont, and every else in the bay area. We are going to see more of that sunshine today, with the wind starting to die down right after lunchtime, so perfect to get our weekend started. Well talk about the rising temperatures and, of course, whats ahead for the weekend coming up. Friday usually means a really blank slate in the south bay, but san jose, 101 showing more traffic than i expected. Things seem to be calming down. Might have been a popular time to look at the camera. I do have a major change for the south bay to point out coming up. Good morning. Very happy friday to you. Its also the ides of march. Bitcoin stabbing new investors in the back. They tried to get in on those record prices, and look at this fall. Bitcoin fell about 10 all of a sudden. There may be big trouble at Mcdonalds Restaurants overseas, reporting computer problems, japan especially. Mcdonald restaurants around here are just opening, so well see if thats something thats going to spread worldwide. Some locations overseas taking orders with pencil and paper. The company says the problems have been resolved. Spacex had problems of its own with his test flight of its unmanned starship. It launched just fine, but when the rocket was in reentry, they lost it. This is the third launch of the starship. You can hear the collective oh as Mission Control loses contact. You want the heat shield tiles pointed down so they can absorb the heat. Bummer. As always, spacex calls it a success as they will learn from mistakes. As Thomas Edison said, i know 1,000 ways not to make a light bulb. Wordle is a morning tradition for people who send scores to their friends. The New York Times bought the game from the developer in january of 2022. If youve never seen it before, here is a look. Im not going to show you any results. Im going to start with my start word, which is arose as my first guess. Will shorts recommends that. It works very well. Were getting ready for our sunday Morning Television show press here and we have the interesting and funny guy, kawasaki, one of the earliest employees of apple. Weve been shooting the show in a podcast style, a fun way of doing it. A lot of people watch online after it airs on tv. The podcast style can lead to a certain amount of confusion on what is, after all, a Television Show on a broadcast network. The way that you know, can i use profanity on this show . You cannot. Its television. Okay. So you can Say Something like gosh darn. Okay. You can see guy kawasaki using Family Friendly language here sunday morning on nbc bay area right after meet the press. Appropriate for all ages. Good to see him. Hes written a lot of books. 13 or something. Exactly. I remember having him on the show years and years ago. Great guy. Nice to check out. Well, are you craving more Girl Scout Cookies . Dont worry. You have another chance to grab your favorites. In fact, an extended week. Girl scout cookie season was set to end this week, but girl scouts of Northern California announced its extending the season in the bay area. You now have until march 24th to buy those cookies. Every box is 6 and available in person and online. Yum. Yummy, yummy in my tummy. I dont have in my desk. Dont go check. Another star visiting the bay area, and causing quite a stir online. Kim kardashian in San Francisco, and making a stop . Jackson square at a restaurant. This happened before she attended her exhusband, kanye wests listening party at chase center. The restaurant posted a video of her dining there at the acclaimed italian restaurant. She wrote, literally the best salty cheese bread ive ever had in my entire life. Must be some good bread. Do you think she really ate it, though . I think she ate a little bit of it. Just a little bit. Thats it. You know what time it is . What time is it . It is time to throw back because Justin Timberlakes concert is going viral because of who joined him on stage. Might sound crazy but itaint no lie the band reunited on stage during timberlakes concert wednesday night. Nsync performed many of their hit songs and the surprise reunion was the bands first onstage performance since the 2023 music awards in september. So a repeat. Not since last year. Late last year. One thing i will say, i remember the first time i saw them in concert. It was a Janet Jackson concert, and they came on and i knew them. I was, like, these guys are really good. Theyre, like, really good. They do everything together. The same time. Oh, thats right. Theyre a group. I would like to see them do a tour again together. I wouldnt be surprised. Im sure theyve still got it. Were dancing into the weekend no matter what the forecast. But i think its going to be good. Were going to dance outside. Were going to dance in all of that sunshine and were off to a good start, and pretty mild. Look at San Francisco and san jose already in the low 60s this morning, and oakland and dublin in those mid50s, with some calm winds at the surface level. Ahead into the mountains, were in a wind advisory until at least 11 00 a. M. It could expire sooner. As we take a look at the wind speeds, the gusty hills and coastline could gust from 50 to 60 miles an hour. Still the possibility of maybe losing your power is on the table this morning as we see those gusts right now toward petaluma around 40 miles an hour. As we start to go into lunchtime and by the time youre out of work, were going to say get out of here to this wind and get out of here to this workweek as we get ready for beautiful temperatures as well. Were going to be seeing a lot more 70s on the map, 73 in novato and napa, as well as fremont, and mid70s stretching from santa rosa to hayward, down into san jose. This beautiful weather is going to continue as we go into saturday, with temperatures coming down just a touch, but still beautiful, sunny skies in those low 70s from martinez down into mountain view. 66 degrees in San Francisco. As we talk about whats ahead as we officially Welcome Spring on tuesday, still staying dry, none of those showers. But then here they come, the possibility of seeing them into next weekends forecast. But those details are still working themselves out. Ill worry about that, you worry about the weekend forecast as we look at beautiful sunny skies this afternoon in San Francisco, beautiful for the st. Patricks day parade as we go into saturday, officially celebrating on sunday with gorgeous temperatures in the 70s throughout our inland valleys, and well kick off the next workweek still 77 degrees. Mike, what are you talking about with this additional roadway recovery . I have for responsibilities because weve reopened highway 9, theyve reopened highway 9. We have a smooth drive coming out of the south county, 101. Over here, weve had this closed for weeks, reopened highway 9 past the sanborn park area just outside of saratoga. Thats great news for locals that have been waiting instead of taking the long reroute. Were still watching the roadway and im watching reports. Oneway Traffic Control through niles canyon, that damage has to be repaired. The roadway came down into the water. 680 will have the closure tonight, and well continue to talk about that, but that doesnt happen until 8 00 p. M. This evening. No problem for the friday commute at the bay bridge toll plaza, and out of the north bay into San Francisco, Golden Gate Bridge is smooth. Back to you. Thanks, mike. 5 22 this morning. Next on today in the bay, nbc bay area responds. We have two frustrated viewers with more than 4 grand on the line. Im consumer investigator chris chmura. We respond in english and in spanish next. And our School Shoutout series continues. Todays comes from Campbell Christian schools in campbell. We are Campbell Christian schools. This is mrs. Rodriguez kindergarten class. 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