Locater. Its on lawrence expressway near 280 just near the transition. Were checking on the transition itself. Folks returning to work after maybe having as much as half a week off last week because of the power disruption. Well see how it does affect traffic flow. San francisco gets off for today. There may be less traffic across town. There is just that crash coming in westbound 80 right around davis where we are seeing slowing with one lane blocked. 5 01 right now. Governor newsome signed a bill that will let middle school and High School Students get more zs. How do we change our start time . A new sta law is aimed at helping teens get more sleep, because there are a number of studies that show correlation between more sleep and better academic performance. The bill has support from doctors, Public Safety and researchers not to mention the california pta. It was anything but an easy a for the bill which was rejected several times and has been opposed by some school leaders. This is
Shock over what they found. Reporter it is beautiful out here just like all weekend but there is a dark close over what is going on with the statue. You could see the red paint at the base of the statue and then when you look up you could still see the red paint, the remnants of it on the Christopher Columbus statue. We got video of the native americans celebrating Indigenous People day by alcatraz and some came up to show disdain for the Christopher Columbus statue. Workers spent the day taking the paint off and at the base including all of the words, destroy all monuments of genocide. A dispute whether columbus was a spanish or italian explorer but many locals are upset with the show of protest. The colonization of the United States, i guess, initiated the pride of the indians here which is a shame so there is something to be said about that. I dont know if this is the way to express that. They probably dont want it there but it is part of the history of our nation and also a monumen
Joseph bannister is the only pilot in history to captaintwo navy frigates. He fired the first shot. This sunday night, author Robert Kerson on the search for the pirate ship the Golden Fleece. He started off his life not as a pirate but as a noble english sea captain, a gentle man, who is trusted by wealthy shipowners to sell their ship the Golden Fleece, this 100 foot long sailing ship, between london and port royal, jamaica which was known as the wicked city on earth and to carry valuable cargo like sugar and indigo dyes between london and port royal. He did that responsibly for years. But then one day in 1684, for reasons no one could determine Joseph Bannister stole the Golden Fleece and recruited a tough pirate crew and went pirate. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspan q a. This week, missouri senator Claire Mccaskill hosted the second in a series of roundtable discussions aimed at combating Sexual Assault on College Campuses. It included College Officials and victims advocates.
The bay area and showers are moving out of napa county and still some showers falling to parts of eastern Sonoma County as well and down in the central part of the bay area, most concentrated area of wet weather from San Francisco to across the bay to mill valley and across the bay to richmond and farther inland. Showers over at concord and down at livermore and altamount and heres the forecast animation starting at 5 00 this morning. Well continue to see waves of showers and scattered showers moving onshore up until about midnight or so and during the overnight it will pretty much taper off and winds down giving us partly cloudy and drier conditions. And when we come back in a few minutes a look at powerful Hurricane Matthew over the tropical atlantic. Ama . All right. Thank you so much, spencer. Well, you can find our weather resources on our nbc weather app. Its all there any time you need to know what weather is coming to where you live. Speaking of the weather, its helping crews g
Shop histing ring are now under arrest. Good evening, and thanks for joining us. This investigation focused on union square where many crimes allegedly committed happened. Carolyn tyler joins us wlif details. Carolyn . That crew hit the high end stores here, and now, there is organized shoplifting ring has been busted. Its not your old school shoplifting. Its taking a new approach to nab the thieves. Last year, the district attorneys new crime strategies unit began connecting the dots between similar cases in union square. That led to charges against 16 people, said to be part of a group, the so called rainbow crew. Obviously, the advantage for the prosecution in doing this kind of investigation is that consequences to the offenders are much greater. The rainbow crew swarmed high end retailers in San Francisco and nationwide. Some of the kids we have linked to other cities with totals of well over a million dollars. And it has become increasingly brazen and violent. They started to use