Yes, we have been out here all afternoon and it has been very peaceful and quiet. This pro pasta encampment continues to grow and get more support from students. A local sierra. Weve also noticed additional Law Enforcement. Now the student protesters tell me that they actively and negotiations with the university about the demand. But while they were negotiating some of those protesters were injured. Uc berkeleys free palestine encampment continues to grow at this proud plaza student protesters say they have been directly negotiating this week with Berkeley Administration on their demands. And then the silence on the genocide. Its kind has to stop. And the 4th was a little more selfish locally facing. And in the repression here people who speak theyre which many examples of people lost their jobs last must endure. The studentled protest says overall its been peaceful and there hasnt been any physidal violence with opposing protesters until wednesday evening person, not from the site, signed a kind of approach to design a scoop in. So students formed a line between the 2 groups tried try to keep tensions down. But still the person managed to grab a israeli flag and touched on so there was a little scuffle as they fought to the fight, according to the university of california as police department. And attempted robbery of a flag and physical assault happened just before 7 oclock on wednesday. Adding that 3 people were injured during this incident. Were trying really hard to keep things skating accept the levels and just a few feet away from the camp, you can find small marcus who says hes here to at spiritual safety for students needing support students, especially our jewish students. Are witnessing any violence, do not see any violence at all. He tells me their goal is to educate the student protesters and he believes theyre not properly informed what the Israeli Government is doing would be shocked to find out that. The Arab Israelis are protected more than any other country in the world. Lot of these students. Attitudes, were not be tolerated in palestinian territories. And we did reach out to the and we did reach out to the university directly about this incident between the 2 protesting groups. And they say that they condemn all violence and they currently investigating this as well. Live at berkeley lab to get more news. Leslie, thank you for that. Meanwhile, students at the university of San Francisco have joined the demonstrations by launching an encampment on campus there at welsh field. The demonstrators are demanding the school disclose all Financial Investments in israels military and then pull those investments. The propalestinian encampment at plate Memorial Plaza on stanfords campus. Meanwhile, is entering its second week. Some students we spoke with say they have noticed additional security measures around the campus. Kron 4 reached out to Palo Alto Police to say they have not provided any assistance to the University Regarding safety or students or plans to possibly remove the encampment. At least 200 people were arrested overnight at ucla that bringing the nationwide total of arrests to more than 2000 since mid april, chaotic scenes played out early this morning with officers in riot gear. Workers cleaning up the encampment having to haul away sheets of plywood used to build a barricade sweeping trash from graffiti. Covered steps. Governor newsom released a statement condemning the violence at ucla. It reads, quote, the law is clear the right to free speech does not extend the the ix does not extend the inciting violence, vandalism or lawlessness on campus. Those who engage in illegal behavior must be held accountable for their action, including through criminal prosecution suspension or expulsion. The california legislative jewish caucus meantime, is expressing its disappointment with how ucla leadership is handling the demonstrations. The cochairs assembly member, Jesse Gabriel and San Francisco, senator scott wiener released a statement saying they support free speech. It says in part the last few days of protests at ucla have targeted jewish students in ways that are anything but peaceful. We are appalled by the physical abuse violence, hate speech and intimidation that have been directed at jewish students over the past several days. The fact that the Ucla Administration allowed this dangerous and overt discrimination to persist unchecked for so long is shameful. And still ahead, we continue our coverage on the protests. State republicans are calling for action. Why they Say School Officials have not done enough to stop the violence. New at 5 fa mill valley teacher has been arrested and charged for child crimes. And that teacher has now been found dead. Police say 55 yearold Michael Smith was found floating in the water about 2 and a half miles away from drake speech last night. Police say he was out surfing when he was washed out to sea smith worked for the Mill Valley School district for about 6 years before he was put on administrative leave when he got arrested this past tuesday, he was booked into jail but bailed out. Authorities are now investigating his exact cause of death. This just into the newsroom, the captain of the conception dive boat has been sentenced to 4 years in prison for the fiery deaths of the 34 people aboard that scuba boat. 70 yearold jerry boylan has been sentenced for criminal negligence in the 2019 at labor day. Tragedy near santa cruz island. Prosecutors say he failed to organize roving night patrols, sufficient fire drills and crew training. They also say he did not fight the flames or attempt to rescue trapped victims. 33 passengers and one crew member were killed. Boylan was ordered to surrender to authorities and begin serving his sentence in july. In downtown San Francisco, 2 security guards were attacked while on the job. It happened just before 10, 30 yesterday morning Near Union Square kron fours gayle ong spoke with one of those victims. She joins us live in studio now with the details. Scale. Yeah, no. Well, the victims, a longtime security guards. One of the men i spoke with, says he never saw the suspect before. And this attack was unprovoked sandhoke. San Francisco Police are searching for the suspect. Alice is back to work a day after he was assaulted by this man captured on Surveillance Video from dinka and then days will be a and then. Open the bill and boost me and then kicked. Morales says the suspect then went after his friend, a 78 yearold man and pushed him to the ground before getting back in his car and driving on. Why do you think someone would do that . I dont because made plans talking about the best will in the and then they opened the door. Mireles says the suspect parked his car in front of their workplace. Both men are security guards who have worked here for decades. The incident happened just before 10, 30 wednesday morning in the area of post and kearny streets Near Union Square. Im just glad to hear that hes okay. Serious battle stopped by to check on morales after hearing about the incident. Those really disturbing to see someone just jump out of their car and attack on the front of these people. We know both morales and bethel say they have not experienced any problems all working in the area over the years candid like being in the financial districts. There is there are some interesting characters that wander by they. Just keep on wondering by. So its it hasnt been much of an issue. And police say this is an active investigation are still determining if this was a hate crime. Gayle ong kron, 4 news. Thanks, gayle. Its weather time as we get a live look outside of San Francisco in the bay areas been showing off this week. My gosh, its been absolutely amazing, lawrence. I keep seeing people land out get in the sun as much as they can before it changes. Yeah, its going to change quite dressed in the temperatures running well above the average around the bay area to some nice, warm numbers, 70s a few 80s out there again today. Fog starting to move in along the coastline. Your first sign of a change in the works. So well see more of that on the way. Still. A nice evening around most of the bay area tonight. It looks like it is going to stay that way for most patches of fog on the way toward the coastline, but otherwise nice and clear right now as we head through the night tonight. Well, these temperatures are going to cool off what a day it has been. Well in the 70s in places like concord at 77 right now. A beautiful evening in livermore, 74 degrees. 75 in santa rosa 72 degrees in san jose. 62 right now cooling off in the breeze in San Francisco. Oakland, checking in at 68 degrees. All right. Speaking of the fall, you can see it right there. Moving in along the San Mateo County coastline and parts of pacifica. And well see more of that as we head toward the coming days as High Pressure going to weaken somewhat as that ridge starts to weaken, that is going to open the doors, going to call what we call retro grade. I mean, just going to back away from the coastline. Thats good. Open up the door to a chance of rain. But not tonight. Just a nice evening outside a little breezy in spots. Otherwise some patchy fog moving in along the coast. Lawrence, thank you. You may want to get out and enjoy the nice evening. Weather out there tonight is the first of 12 monthly block parties scheduled to happen in San Francisco. Its called downtown first thursdays and thousands of folks have already signed up to attend the street party just started officially a few minutes ago. A kron fours rob nesbitt joins us live with what inspired first thursdays. Hows it going . Pretty good. Grant know. Well, organizers were actually inspired by what they saw oakland with first friday there. So they decided start pomething here in San Francisco. This is the first first thursday happening downtown. And its happening all along Second Street from Market Street in that direction, running all the way down to how are they got the entire street clothes off. You can tell by the crowd that people found out quickly about this. By midday thursday, volunteers and city workers were busy closing down Second Street in San Francisco and preparation for downtown first thursday, a monthly street party to be held the first thursday of every month. And the idea of many you o. Why isnt francisco have something that were doing in our downtown thats thats us. Thats uniquely the owner amenities and executive director of the City Joy Fund has organized live music. Djs drag performances, martial arts and more for first thursday with the goal of attracting 10,000 people to downtown once a month. The reason why this is important is because we need to get people to create new memories downtown to remember how close it is and how easy it is to get there and how much there is to offer for folks. Downtown Business Owners has spent the last few months preparing for first thursdays, including David Scott Mabry and Michelle Delaney who own one 11 minute gallery. Theyve seen other businesses close around their art gallery since the pandemic and hope the monthly street party is here to stay, says he everything when you have so many businesses being closed. So people knowing that they can come out first there all these businesses will be open and active for them. I think thats what ultimately can help us along. First thursdays are free, but organizers are encouraging people to register online through eventbrite with 6,000 people already on the list. But thats a lot. Its really cool. Good for business and downtown. So we really want this feel like something for everyone. But its about celebrating the best of San Francisco and celebrating our downtown. First thursday is going to be happening here until 10 00pm. Tonight is the first of many, of course, is going to be scheduled the first thursday every month until april of 2025. Reporting live in San Francisco. Im rob nesbitt. Kron. 4 news looks like a lot of folks already out there. Look at your drive themselves good weather. Good night for thanks. Up next after being accused of cultural and racial bias. How the San Jose Police departments taking a new approach to Cinco De Mayo this year. Pretty scary. Knowing that she was in his accident. A dangerous drive to school. What happened when a mother driving her daughter to class tried to get away from the shooting . Let there be light swim. We can expect to see the bay bridge all lit up again. And how the display will be a bit different this time around. A second lawsuit has been filed against benicia unified School District claiming it swept teacher abuse accusations under the rug. This new lawsuit similar to the first looks to hold schools accountable for its negligent hiring. A former teacher, Matthew Shelton failing to report his abuse of its students and concealing his actions to protect the districts own reputation. Shelton has been charged with 7 counts of molesting a child. Meantime, the man on your screen here has been arrested, charged with multiple counts of assault. The 41 yearold is the owner of she hair salon and conquered at clayton road and bailey road. Police say the crimes happened inside his hair salon. He remains in custody tonight. Concord police does believe there are more victims. So if you have any information on the man on your screen, youre asked to come forward. Fast food workers at to oakland locations are on strike today. Workers at play loco on international and 25th near the Fruitvale Bart station and workers that mcdonalds on 14th in jackson, near lake merritt, say their bosses have failed to protect workers and customers from Hazardous Conditions in a formal complaint to cal osha employees. Describe seeing rats nibbling on pieces of bacon and hamburgers that they are ready to serve. Customers. For more than a year, this sparkling lights of an art installation on the bay bridge have been turned off, leaving things looking a little dark and lonely. But those lights are coming back with the promise is the project will be even bigger and better. Kron fours. Catherine heenan joining us from the newsroom now with details. Catherine. Yeah, people love those lights, noel. And it has been 14 months since weve seen them. The cofounder of the nonprofit behind the project called the lumen 8. Talk to kron today and his update will make a lot of people happy, including drivers. We think we can do this without being a driver distraction. Actually think it might even increased driver attention. But but imagine coming into San Francisco. Have your friends into our cities reported the public art. Its 1. 8 miles long seeing the city of San Francisco open on the other side of it. Were very, very excited. The last time we saw ban davis, he was the guy officially turning the lights off. That was march of last year after more than a decade, the lights were basically warning out too expensive to maintain bringing them back has taken a lot of fundraising. The new lights will be more durable and more people will be able to see them were also in a double the number of led. So. Were still the western span and the Northern Edge of the bay bridge. But were going to wrap around the table with a note on both sides so we can deliver a static equity around the bay. You know, really not just to the pet houses in San Francisco, the north bay, but, you know, all the way down into the bay view, hopefully over the oakland, alameda berkeley, richmond and the new emerging neighborhoods of Treasure Island ny, be i the new version will be called bay lights 3. 60. If all goes well, theyll be up by march of 2025. A new design. A bigger show, but it will still take a lot of work. Then we need to get up on the bridge and which is not easy to do as we as we take the old lights down, will put the new lights up in one big pass. We need to work with the traffic engineers to make sure that were proposing is safe. And and then the artist needs to get up there and really spend as much time as he needs to program the lights and that she the level of beauty that i know thats already there, but he thinks he can take it even further. And then well have our grand lighting. The people behind the new lights. They had to come up with 11 Million Dollars in donations to make it all happen. Theyve got all but the last half million, they say and expect to get that soon. They did not use public money and they decided not to use sponsorships. Most of the money came from wealthy donors, grant well. Thanks, catherine. As we take a live look outside this is the view from the crowd for studios along the embarcadero in San Francisco. You see the aforementioned bay bridge not let up yet, but plenty of wind out there in the sky. A lot of lawrence, this where the change happened. Yet. Started though worsen. Seen some of the fog moving along the coastline today. That was a sign of the change beginning. But if youre living in the bay in the valleys, hardly noticed a change at all. Temperatures again, very similar