Expecting this memorial day weekend straight ahead. Live from jack london square. This is mornings on two. The knight. Today is thursday, may 23rd. Were looking at the San Francisco skyline here, and it is just i dont know if thats haze. Its not completely blue. Skies are clear and i know that the weather is probably on your mind, especially if youre staying in the bay area. So were going to have steve talk about that in just a bit. When it comes to hiring new employees , as more Companies Say that a candidates skills are more important than their experience, according to a new study from indeed, this trend is especially true in high wage positions that require college degrees. It found that two years ago, 66 of indeed job postings that required a bachelors degree also asked for a minimum amount of experience. But today, just 44 of these postings asked for any experience at all. The shift towards skills based hiring comes as online resources have made it easier to pick up new skills. Welcome to the nine. What . What kind of skills is it . Maybe coding . What do you think . Coding or. I think its everything. Everything. Yeah, yeah i mean ability to understand i you remember your first job in tv or you were in radio . I, you know, i could write and i had a degree, but its like, please give me a shot and you almost have to do it while youre on the job. But i think kids are getting picking up skills probably a little bit for sure. Theyre savvier. I mean, the number of nine year olds have this thing, the number of times i heard youre doing good. You just need some more experience to work at our tv station. Im like, yes, but how do i get that experience right . Someone to take a flier on you. Ive been bowled over by some of the early 20 somethings weve had come into this newsroom. They are sharp, so they are on it at a time that i was still learning. So absolutely different generation, i think. Yeah, yeah. All right, all right. New this morning. Lets move on to this now. Ktvu has concerned a rather serious story. A body was found inside a fire scene in pleasanton at a Mobile Home Park on vineyard avenue. Firefighters spent most of the night battling flames and putting out hot spots. It was contained to one unit at what is 55 and older facility and ktvu. Sally rasmus will be here in the next half hour after she spoke to neighbors about the couple that lived in that home. Millions of californians will get out of town for the long memorial day weekend. Some are leaving today. Ktvu james torres reports on the early stages of what could be a record breaking time for travel. For most memorial day weekend means three days off of work, giving you plenty of flexibility to figure out what to do with that time off. We spoke to a couple of people flying out of oaklands airport this morning, and they gave us a little insight of what their nontraditional memorial day traditions look like. Were heading to omaha, nebraska, and once in omaha, nebraska, were going to go take a tour with our grandparents to see what life was like before electricity going to strongsville, ohio, and whats in strongsville, ohio. Its a music trivia group that weve been together for about 25 years, and we meet every year from all over the country in general. Aa predicts this memorial day weekend to be the second busiest on record since 2000. On the roads, people traveling by car are likely to set a new record, with more than 38 Million People planning a road trip. Spokesperson says memorial day weekend this year will set the tone for travel for the rest of the year, and that could be promising. We havent seen numbers like this from memorial day in nearly 20 years, not since 2005. That weve seen numbers this big, when we talk about the pandemic again, were not just talking about prepandemic numbers. We are surpassing prepandemic numbers. So that tells you a lot about how people are viewing travel these days. In california, that number is about 4. 5 Million People traveling for the weekend by car. For airlines, tsa is expecting as many as 3 Million People in a single day likely to happen friday. The faa says today could be the single busiest travel day since 2019. Some popular hot spots by plane this year florida, las vegas and denver, which triple a says its new to its top list experts predict if we see some of these numbers be as high as they expect this weekend, then we can expect this summer to be some of the busiest travel weve ever seen. With nearly 300 Million People traveling from now until the end of august. Reporting in oakland. Im james torres, ktvu, fox two news. All right, speaking of travel, we want some viewer reaction. This morning. Were asking, how are you traveling this memorial day weekend . Your options catching a flight, hitting the roads or staycationing. Just scan that qr code at the top right of your screen or go to ktvu. Com vote. Yeah, i think a lot of people are chillin and grillin on the home front. No problem with that. Yeah, you want to wait a little bit, wait till the summer starts, stay home, relax a little bit and we need some good weather. Although a little cooler than normal. Right, chilling and grilling. You got that right. Because its going to be a cool pattern. We had our full moon this morning. The may full moon, known as the flower moon skies were clear. Only a teeny bit of fog. There might be more tomorrow, though, as the way it looks, this big system up in the intermountain region brought snow. Parts of montana there and rain record rain in seattle a day ago. So this is a pretty dynamic system. Only a little bit of fog left on the san mateo coast. Still hanging around. Santa cruz is trying it. Poof. I think just like that, its about ready to disappear. Capitola. Aptos as well. Cooler pattern, in fact, a little bit today. More likely into friday and saturday. High temperatures will take the plunge here. Theyll be lucky to get out of the low 70s for many now. A north wind certainly helps santa rosa. Thats why were still going 80 there. Livermore, though a little cooler. Redwood city cooler in san jose 78 to 76. Thats the spirit san jose. Look at these water tans. Point raised 48. This is a rarity to see. 4950 yes, but to get 48, you dont see that all that often. Point raised point arena and even San Francisco. Boy low 50s, incredibly cold. So the breeze is beginning to pick up here. And when you get water temps that cold and any kind of system coming in probably wont take much to get some low clouds going over in the weekend here. But the breeze will be a factor more so i think as we go into tomorrow. If youre traveling, these are the forecast highs for tomorrow. Sacramento only 81. Lake tahoe will have some partly cloudy, mostly cloudy skies. Monterey, santa barbara, la. Thats fog and palm springs again for the end of may. Not too bad. Bottle rock. Id take a jacket. Thats the way it looks here. At least friday, saturday, sunday, though, does look a little bit better, but temperatures below average here for us. Sunday for all. Breezy. Not much fog left. Most of its gone. Temps near average, lots of sun, breezy, 60s 70s to some low 80s. If you want a cooler the next couple of days, or to your liking if you want a little warmer sunday into monday. You guys. Steve. Thank you. Happening today. Several University President s are in washington, d. C. Testifying about propalestinian campus protests and antisemitism. The president s of ucla, rutgers and northwestern are in front of lawmakers. This morning, republicans accused the College Leaders of failing to protect students and prevent antisemitism on campus. This is the fourth time in six months the School President s have testified in front of congress. Todays hearing, though the first with public universities, usf says about 25 students are on interim suspension for taking part in a propalestinian encampment. They received conduct notices on tuesday. The students say that the notices were indiscriminate and included both people who vacated the camp before the deadline and those who had been promised amnesty. The accused, the university of not negotiating in good faith. Usf says those that were involved will be given the opportunity to respond to the alleged conduct code of conduct conduct code rather violations. The department of justice is officially going after Live Nation Entertainment still to come. The illegal monopoly. The doj is accusing the owner of ticketmaster of. And predators preying on children online. The fbi investigation that is working to uncover who is behind a group thats targeting kids and who is the most v nerabl hey its your dry skin. Every day we lose ceramides i need to seal in moisture. Cerave delivers three essential ceramides to help restore my barrier, so i can lock in moisture, feel hydrated, and look healthy. Cerave facial moisturizing lotions. The Parent Company of ticketmaster, accusing them of illegally maintaining a monopoly in the Live Entertainment industry. The antitrust lawsuit argues that tours promoted by the company were more likely to play venues where ticketmaster was the exclusive ticket service. Well, that helped the company maintain a monopoly, raising prices and fees for consumers and hurting the competition. Several dozen states, including california, have filed with the doj asking the court to break up that company. Recent years live nation, ticketmaster exorbitant fees and technological failures have been criticized by fans and artists alike. But we are not here today because live nation ticketmasters conduct is inconvenient or frustrating. We are here because, as we allege, that conduct is anticompetitive and illegal. Our complaint makes clear what happens when a monopolist dedicates its resources to entrenching its monopoly power and insulating itself from competition, rather than investing in better products and services. Live nation and ticketmaster have disputed accusations that they are a monopoly, citing increasing competition for online ticketing sales. Allegations of lavish spending are forcing a shakeup at a major attraction at San Franciscos pier 39. The chronicle reports george lake. George jacob was pressured to resign as the ceo of the aquarium of the bay. The paper says as the attraction faced serious money problems, jacob racked up hundreds of thousands of dollars in entertainment and travel expenses, including nearly a half 1 million trip to dubai to a Climate Change event. The new chairman says he hopes to improve finances with a successful summer tourism season. Jacob says he left the aquarium to pursue a new project. The owner of two Fishermans Wharf restaurants that closed soon after the start of the pandemic is suing the city of San Francisco for millions. The chronicle reports. The owner of fishermans grotto and tarantinos alleges the city owes maintenance costs and blames the city for the neighborhoods deteriorating conditions. The owner says these issues contributed to both closures in 2020. The City Attorneys Office argues this is the owners attempt to get out of paying close to 2 million owed in back rent to the city. Well, the fbi says a network of online predators is using Common Social media and gaming sites to find young victims. Their goal is to manipulate the victims to share violent images of themselves. Ktvu Jana Katsuyama spoke with the fbi and the investigative journalists who have been tracking that group. She has a special report on the methods and the mental anguish that those predators are inflicting. Ive been working on extremism for maybe about seven years now. This is some of the worst stuff ive ever seen. Investigative journalist ali winston was part of a collaborative team, including journalists from the u. S, germany and romania who collaborated on an investigation into the online group called 764. Winston says the groups name comes from the zip code of the founder. The members gather on social media and manipulate young people to harm themselves for the groups pleasure. The stories that we heard from the victims, a number of whom we interviewed for this collaborative, was really they were heart rending, winston said. Victims would be asked to send compromising or nude photos or harm themselves by inflicting cuts or socalled cut signs. Its when you carve that persons handle into your skin with a blade or a razor, or another sharp object. And, this was this is a modus operandi of seven, six, four. They do this all the time, and some of the, some of the cut signs that ive seen are just theyre horrific. Winston says the groups members also would order victims to commit violent acts on animals. Thats Something Else that 764 asks people to do to hurt their pet. Theres a young woman who is who beheaded her hamster, live in a what they call a red room, which is basically a live stream room on discord, a video chat. So thats the sort of thing that would happen. We spoke with the fbi, which issued an alert this past fall about seven, six, four and other similar groups. Robert tripp is special agent in charge for the San Francisco office of the fbi and he says this isnt just happening on the dark web or obscure corners of the internet. The dark web is a part of this, but these predators are identifying their victims in very public facing social media platforms. Thats where they find these people. They find them in the social media platforms that all of the kids are using, that our families are using, and that includes many of the social media platforms that are based right in the bay area or used by children here. Instagram, telegram, discord. Twitter x roblox are those places where you are seeing this . Any public facing platform is a potential vector for this kind of activity. Online predators, bullying and exploitation are not new, but tripp says money is not the main motive of groups such as seven six, four. But the difference is the element of violence. These people arent merely lacking empathy with their victims, they actually derive eve pleasure from making their victims suffer. And that is truly disturbing for us. Thats why this is such a high priority for us. And often the groups targets are young people who already feel isolated, insecure, or struggle with Mental Health issues. The primary age range we see is 8 to 17 is where were concerned. Seven, six, four, 100 seeks out and preys on children, young folk with Mental Health issues. They have an entire guide that theyve crafted and distributed amongst themselves on how to identify those folks, how to bring them into a relationship. The fbi San Francisco office says it is working closely with social Media Companies to investigate. We have a Good Relationship with with many providers here in the bay area. When they come across information, theyll block it, theyll take it down and theyll notify law enforcement. Last month, the tech coalition, which represents some three dozen major tech companies, launched a new effort called lantern, where Companies Agree to share information about online predators across platforms. But protecting young people is an increasing challenge. A report by the ncmec, the National Center for missing and exploited children, says its cyber tip line received more than 1 million reports in 2023. In the u. S, more than 110,000 of those reports were from california, and the center says while Electronic Communication Service providers are required to report bad actors, now, quote, Widespread Adoption of end to end encryption by reporting isps will begin at some point in the calendar year 2024 and could result in a loss of up to 80 of ncmec, cybertipline reports. Adding to the challenge, a new study from stanfords internet Observer Team says the ncmec s systems are in dire need of updates to keep pace with technology, something that would require a big increase in funding. The fbi says one factor that can help is for family members, friends, teachers and other trusted adults to be watchful for any signs that something might be wrong if they see their children suddenly become very withdrawn, they see their children covering up, hiding their arms and legs. For example, because cutting is a part of this, those are warning signs. Simple mood changes, profound mood changes can be a good indicator as well. And most important, the fbi says, is to talk with young people about their interactions online. There are people on the internet that may pretend to be your friends, but theyre not your friends. Having that kind of a conversation. Jana katsuyama, ktvu fox two news. Thank you, jana. And the fbi says it is important for young people and parents alike to know where to turn for help and get the support needed as well. Along with 911, you can get help at one 800. Call fbi or call the National Center for missing and exploited children at one 800. The lost. Reports of weeping statues and visions of the virgin mary have a new set of rules. How the vatican is cracking down on socalled supernatural occurrences. Law enforcement officers showed up in force to remember the short life of an Alameda County sheriffs dispatcher who was killed on her way to work, how dispatchers from across the east bay stepped in to allow her colleagues to grve befor th i love david to pap is now underway in San Francisco. Yesterday, jury selection began. Pap is accused of breaking into San Franciscos home of congresswoman nancy pelosi and attacking her husband, paul with a hammer. The pap is facing charges of attempted murder, burglary and assault. The prosecution has got a video. This is a 21st century case. They have the crime actually recorded, visually. So the question would be for the defense. Can you find jurors that might be more sympathetic to somebody whos got mental illness, who believ