>> she wanted that family that she never had. she wanted children. she wanted to love something unconditionally and have some -- somebody love her unconditionally. >> i love you. >> reporter: and she was still looking for that love right until the hours before the winds began howling and the waters rose. ♪ that's all for this edition of "dateline." we'll see you again friday at 9:00/8:00 central and of course, i'll see you each weeknight for "nbc nightly news." i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, also a celebration of mexican heritage and culture. we take you to the cinco de mayo festivities in the south bay and tourists are coming back to

california. the announcement governor newsom made from an iconic bay area landmark, and why some say there's still work to be done. the news at 11 starts right now. thanks for joining us. i'm terry mcsweeney and i'm gia vang, a busy night for police in several bay area cities. at this hour. officers in oakland responding to several sideshows across the city. in san jose, several street closures remain in place and police are investigating a stabbing that left a child and adult injured. it happened near where cinco de mayo celebrations were taking place. nbc bay area of marianne favro joins us live with the update we just got from police. marianne yes, and we received that same update. police tell us that a boy, an adult, or rather a juvenile boy was one of the people stabbed. the other is an adult man. he was taken to the hospital where right now he is fighting for his life in critical condition. and this all happened near emma farm

park, off king road. the stabbing happened shortly before 530 tonight near where cinco de mayo celebrations were taking place off king road. it's unclear if the violence is connected to those celebrations. to celebrate, yesenia angeles says she believes cinco de mayo celebrations may have increased the risk of violence as police searched for a suspect on foot. a police helicopter circled the area using a loudspeaker to warn drivers to leave the plaza at king and story, or risk having their vehicles towed near downtown. police closed the park avenue off ramp off southbound highway 85. police say they also focused on crowd control on santa clara street because of safety concerns, including fights, reckless driving and sideshow activity. but most people seem to enjoy the lively atmosphere. cinco de mayo it

just brings a lot of the mexican culture out to their community, and so definitely enjoying the fact that we can all be together and everybody else. diversity everything else i've seen throughout the streets. so it's been fun to enjoy that. police diverting cars onto fourth street as a parade of vehicles with flags headed out of downtown for the night. all right, marianne, thank you for that. and that incident and road closures. a small part of otherwise peaceful and festive cinco de mayo celebrations in. san jose. cinco de mayo commemorates mexico's victory over france in the battle of puebla in 1862. festivities kicked off today with a parade starting at city hall. featured music, folklorico dancers and lowriders. the parade ended up at cesar chavez plaza for an all day festival. one spectator told us that she's proud to celebrate mexican culture, and she's happy

to do it in san jose. it's really, really good to see all of that back here in san jose. bringing tradition back. it's been a long time since we had tradition. the downtown parade and festival wasn't the only party in town. over in east san jose, people lined the streets for another parade. some members of our nbc bay area and telemundo 48 family proud to ride on our float right there. also rolling out hundreds of lowriders from more than 70 local car clubs. pretty cool. our damian trujillo. this is also very cool. look at him right there. he and his family got to go on a ride in one of those lowriders, and then check out this video. he took some video showing what the parade looked like from his point of view. very, very cool. tourism in california is back and better than ever after, according to governor newsom, who says travelers spent a record $150 billion in the golden state last year, a sign where moving forward post-pandemic. but despite the announcement made atop one of san francisco's most iconic landmarks, economic

recovery in san francisco continues to lag behind. here's nbc bay area's alyssa goard. san francisco tourism groups tell us that the doom loop narrative about san francisco is not true. still, they say there's more that needs to be done to bring tourism levels up to what they were before covid. san francisco has many iconic vistas. governor gavin newsom chose one of them to highlight a new tourism report, some up here on the golden gate bridge. what a perfect place to announce our record breaking tourism numbers. in a video posted sunday, newsom shared numbers from a visit california report showing travel spending in the state reached an all time high in 2023, and that travel spending in california is finally higher than it was in 2019 by about 4. while it is true that california is recovering and has had a wonderful stellar year, that in

the northern california pacific san francisco, we still have some rebuilding to do of our visitor economy. but while travel spending in the bay area is on the rise, the report shows those numbers have not surpassed pre-pandemic levels yet. san francisco travel says one issue is the city is not seeing as many tourists from asia. we have a really, really high dependance on international travel from asia. in san francisco, it's a very, very big part, an important part of our our sort of our visitor mix. and that is still lagging as the number of flights increase between the u.s. and china. this is expected to improve, but it will take time. there are definitely tourists here. there are definitely tourists spending. it's uneven, the pier 39 ceo says they're spending in some places more than others. pier 39 has a record number of sea lions helping to drive visitors at nearby fisherman's wharf. foot traffic is still down nearly 20% from 2019. what could help

change that? the wharf's benefit district says state and federal leaders spreading the message that san francisco is a safe and exciting place to visit. governor newsom, thank you, thank you, thank you for bringing tourism back to california, southern california posted those numbers. please bring back and help us bring back the tourist industry to san francisco. in san francisco. alyssa goard, nbc, bay area news. all right, speaking of san francisco, here's a live look at the city ahead of its 20th annual small business week, the mayor and other leaders are hosting a public event at pier 70 tomorrow night to start the week with some fanfare. the theme this year is a love letter to makers and manufacturers. much of the focus is going to be on celebrating their creativity and craftsmanship. the week features workshops and networking opportunities, other events as well. it's all aimed at recognizing and supporting the city's small businesses. some political heavy hitters coming to the bay area this week. tomorrow secretary of state antony blinken making a

stop in menlo park. he is set to meet with biotech experts, and then he's going to head up to san francisco for the rsa conference. it focuses on fostering equity in emerging technologies, including ai, biotech and the digital world. after the conference, he's going to travel to guatemala to discuss migration policy with its leaders across the bay area. university students and others are showing no signs of packing up camp. they remain in encampments on campuses protesting the war in gaza. at stanford, things remain peaceful. at an encampment at white plaza. it's been two weeks since protesters began setting up dozens of tents there. a group spokesperson says they refuse to move until the university agrees to divest from companies, making weapons, oil and gas, as well as surveillance systems used in the israel-hamas war. we've been advocating for them to end their complicity in this genocide, and they still haven't done anything. so we're going to keep pushing until we get what we want. stanford has warned students their camps

violate university policy. so far, police have not forced them out. students say they're aware they could be suspended or expelled for their actions. so far, no word on whether the university has disciplined any of the demonstrators at san francisco state university. the pro-palestinian encampment that began six days ago is growing, and protesters say they're looking forward to a meeting tomorrow with university president lynn mahoney. we're told it will involve an open negotiation. demonstrators are calling on the school to disclose and withdraw all investments, with companies doing business with israel and declare opposition to what they call the genocide in gaza. it will be hosted here at the quad over our encampment. we're going to be discussing our terms of demands, and we are hoping that we come to a concrete conclusion. and if we don't, then we'll continue the work that we are doing. a protest spokesperson says the demands are non-negotiable. university spokesman confirms this evening president mahoney will be there at 1:00 tomorrow afternoon in southern california, usc

students protesting the war in gaza got an unwelcome wake up call. they were forced to pack up camp and leave university grounds early this morning around 4:00. this morning, police officers in riot gear helped campus officers clear that massive encampment. and coming up at 1130, we'll have much more from the usc campus and reactions from students in the middle east. a new escalation israel has closed the main border crossing used to bring food and medicine into gaza. that comes after hamas attacked that key border area. now, aid groups fear parts of gaza are now in a full blown famine. here's nbc's megan fitzgerald. tonight, another massive blow to the dire humanitarian crisis unfolding in gaza. israel shutting down the karem shalom crossing after they say hamas fired rockets towards the border. hamas says they targeted idf headquarters. the closure a significant setback. in an exclusive interview on

meet the press this morning, the head of the world food program saying parts of the enclave already gripped by famine. so what i can explain to you is, is that there is famine, full blown famine in the north, and it's moving its way south. this, as the latest round of negotiations on the cease fire, ended today. hamas calling for an end to the war, a complete withdrawal of idf troops and for people to be able to return to their communities. a hamas prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, this morning doubling down, saying ending the war in gaza would keep hamas in power. and tonight, a source with knowledge of the matter told nbc news. cia director william burns is in doha and will travel to israel this week. meanwhile, the israeli cabinet voting to shut down broadcast company al jazeera from operating in the country, al jazeera releasing a statement saying in part, we will make sure that we report both sides, despite the fact that we have lost the coverage from inside israel. megan

fitzgerald, nbc news as megan is reporting, we're learning tonight, the director of the cia may travel to israel for continued cease fire and hostage release talks after talks once again broke down this weekend, nbc news reporting director william burns was in qatar today holding discussions. qatar has been mediating these discussions previously, burns was in cairo, where hamas stated cease fire discussions ended without a deal after signs of progress from the two sides. again a breakdown. hamas reiterated key demands that israel again rejected. now the outlook for a cease fire remains dim, and israel is poised to invade rafah, believed to be hamas's final stronghold. president biden is coming back to the bay area. he's going to be here this week. it's not clear exactly when he'll be touching down, but we do know he plans to attend a fundraiser on friday in the portola valley, home of billionaire venture capitalist vinod khosla. tickets range from 6600, up to $100,000. this will be at least the fourth

bay area fundraising trip for mr. biden since taking office. it's unclear whether he's going to attend any public events while he's here. coming up, protesters paddle across the san francisco bay. their message to a major east bay company and what prompted them to act plus. that's wild. using ai to create art. the band using the new technology to make a music video . and we'll be bundling up for our first monday morning in may. but by the end of this upcoming week, we're going to be looking for our summer clothing detail on the warm

spay. they held up signs that read pollute no more, act now clean air, water and soil for all, part of a global day of

action to call attention to climate justice. the activists claim low income communities of color are negatively impacted by chevron. what we're saying is, hey, chevron, you know, the people of richmond deserve a healthy, safe future. and so do your workers, you know? and so we need to make sure that the refinery is transitioning to sustainable renewable practices, says the group of so-called activists spent hours near the richmond-san rafael bridge before returning to shore. we reached out to chevron. in a statement, the company says it, quote, respects the rights of individuals to peacefully express their viewpoints. adding chevron richmond remains focused on safely and reliably providing essential energy that keeps the bay area moving. well, new at 11. this certainly got our attention. one artist is sharing a new music video made entirely with eye.

wow. yeah. indie artists washed out releases. music video. using openai's text to video tech known as sora. the song is called the hardest part. it's four minutes long and it's the first ever entirely eye generated music video. the video follows a love story of a fictional couple from high school until their death. director of the video says sora interested, it interested him because it allowed him to include hallucinatory details that couldn't exist with animation or film. apple it's set to unveil some new products this week. the tech giant expected to launch new ipads on tuesday. it also has a new way of launching the event, with the tagline let loose will be live streamed on apple's website. usually, the event is prerecorded. not this time. tech watchers say they expect apple to unveil new ipads and ipad accessories after no new models were announced last year. all right, speaking of apple, a woman in new york is crediting

her apple watch for saving her life. yeah, adam cooperstein from our sister station has more on that alarm that changed everything. jessica malone had just biked home from harlem to hell's kitchen when her apple watch started buzzing. and that's when it turned red and vibrated and was saying, seek medical attention, and that's when i was just really thrown off, like, okay, this is serious. jessica doctor bike and rushed to the emergency room. she had come in with severe palpitations and chest pain symptoms and also lightheadedness and dizziness. doctor asad mohammed was on call at mount sinai west. he says jessica had an abnormal heart rhythm called atrial fibrillation or afib. he was like, this is really serious. like your family needs to get down here concerned about blood clots and a potential stroke. doctors had to use electrical currents to shock jessica's heart into a normal rhythm. it worked. and the next day she was able to go home. the apple watch

or other watches are very helpful because they provide patients with a very quick alert system for them to see a health care provider, if not for the alerts on her watch, jessica says she would have just gone home and taken a nap instead, she credits the apple watch for turning her life around. even when it sucks, it feels good. since the health scare last may, jessica has dropped 100 pounds and adopted a healthy lifestyle training to run her very first marathon. this weekend's potomac river run in d.c, which falls exactly one year at mount sinai since she was discharged from the hospital. god bless. that wasn't even crossed my mind. jessica has been documenting her journey on social media to inspire others to pay attention to their health. and you'll notice in all the videos she's wearing, her apple watch and she certainly will be for all 26.2 miles. i absolutely will be. yes, i'm never taking it off. i take it off to charge and that's it. wow wow. incredible. okay, now this view from the sierra

new video showing the snow total for the season. the uc berkeley sierra snow lab says yesterday's storm dropped more than 26in. wow. that makes yesterday the snowiest day at the lab this season. researchers say the second snowiest day was march 3rd, which saw just under 24in of snow. palisades tahoe ski resort is also celebrating the fresh snow. they also received 26in in 24 hours. the resort is calling it the may power day in recent memory, the may power, but the may power is going to give. it's going to get back to normal now right? yeah. we listen, we're going to have a lot of seasons in the span of seven days. we had winter yesterday. yes, today and tomorrow early parts of the week you're going to be spring and then we're going to go into summer by the end of it. such a huge jump in all of these conditions. but speaking of the sierra, our snowpack pretty healthy for this time of year. we are looking at through the

north, central and southern part of the state, running about 92, about 100% of that average for the time of day. and remember, this provides our snowpack, our water supply as we go on into that spring melt and further on into the summer season. as far as what we can expect here locally with our temperatures and our trends this week, we are going to clear out and start our monday morning with those chilly 40s. so bundling up, cranking up the ac a little bit, and as we go on into monday and our tuesday, sunny and breezy, similar to what we saw today. so those winds are going to continue to pick up our allergies around here. i'm sorry about that. but by the time we get into the middle part of the week, we're looking at that warm trend feeling like summer. and i'll show you those temperatures in just a second. as far as tomorrow's temperatures, it will be just a touch warmer as we go on into those upper 50s and 60s. along the coast, bayside, those upper 60s, and maybe those low 70s. as we stretch way inland into the fairfield, later on into the afternoon, our wind

speeds not only with the allergies, of course, but maybe monday is laundry day. not a bad idea to save some energy and hang things outside as we go on into the afternoon, wind gusts at around 15 to 25 mile an hour winds and then calming down into the afternoon. and then as we go on into tuesday, this will carry us into more of those 70s as we make our way into parts of santa rosa, martinez, down into the santa clara valley. those low 70s and not too bad along the peninsula in those upper 60s. but here's where things start to take a change as we go on into the middle portion of the week, we're going to build this ridge of high pressure. so that's going to clear our skies, bring down those wind speeds a little bit and give us ample sunshine. so how are we looking with those temperatures by the time we get into wednesday some spots already in the low 80s, such as santa rosa over on into concord, and maybe trying to get into those 80s down into the south bay. but really, i think the warmest days will be as we go on into thursday and friday. so i'm happy that we had a little bit of that weekend rain, because

that's subsiding the fire concerns there as we go and feel more like summer there into our friday kicking off the weekend, making those mother's day plans. hint, hint everybody. and as we go on into the next couple of days in san francisco, watching out for the breezy conditions at times, but then 70s in the city, watching a little bit of a cool down as well as we go on into next weekend. but i'll take care of that. you take care of looking at these temperatures 60 to 70 to 80s. so i'm just happy to deliver this for anybody that is looking forward to those warm summer like temperatures getting warmer. beautiful. cynthia. thanks you're welcome. up next, flavor flav eyeing the olympics. how he's helping one team make it to paris.

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kezar stadium for the police activities league annual kids games. more than 500 children between the ages of five and 14. they worked up a sweat at track and field events. look at them go, including a 50 and 100 meter race and long jump. organizers say the event not only promoted physical activity, but it helped build trust and friendships among everyone. there brings together the community and our police officers for a fun event. the city had stopped doing track meets, so we figured if we started it again to get kids interested and maybe they would continue on when they got to junior high or high school. look at them right there. the winners at today's eighth annual event stood on a podium to receive medals and ribbons. organizers say they hope the festivities also inspire young people to one

day work in law enforcement. hall of famer rapper flavor flav is stepping up for the u.s. women's water polo team in a big way. he is pledging to back the defending champs at the paris olympics. this comes after water polo veteran and danville's maggie steffens put out a call for financial support this weekend. she wrote on instagram. chasing the dream often requires a second or even a third job for her, and her teammates. just hours later, flavor flav replied to the post, writing quote, as a girl dad and supporter of all women's sports, i'm a personally sponsor. you my girl, whatever you need, and i'm a sponsor the whole team. close quotes team is thrilled. of course, the act of generosity generating a lot of buzz even beyond sports. and remember, speaking of the olympics, nbc bay area is your home for all things olympics. our jessica aguirre is heading to paris this summer. she's going to bring us complete coverage on steffens and our other local athletes. the olympics kick off july 26th

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his first major league start for the giants tomorrow in philadelphia. he's from scranton, about two hours away from the city of brotherly love. now, when he takes the hill, he'll try to keep the giants from getting swept by the phillies. today's game tied at one. in the third, bryce harper takes logan webb deep. it's a three run shot now down five one in the seventh. the giants showing some fight. thairo estrada goes on a power trip. that's a two run homer. now we move to the ninth inning and jackson reed steps to the plate. he slams his first major league home run. that made it a one run game, but that's as close as san francisco would get. the phillies hand the giants their third loss in a row. five four, is the final. as for tomorrow, his manager bob melvin, on what will be a big day for the newest member of the giants rotation. you know, it seems like the

times in baseball, you know, things play out. you know, a way that baseball does. and to be able to come here and get his first start, you know it's not the easiest opponent in the world. but i think, you know, he just kind of insulate on i'm a big leaguer now and go out and do his thing, stay with his strengths and you know he's been pitching pretty well. so tomorrow will be a very, very special day for him. back here in the bay. the a's had their six game win streak snapped by the marlins. top one nick gordon tags joe boyle for a three run homer. boyle hurt his lower back. he did not return after the first inning. miami wins this 112 to 3. yesterday, the a's became the first team in baseball this season to score 20 runs, but today, not enough pop at the plate offensively. today we really didn't get much going. you know outside of having a couple good at bats, you know and it's pretty much the moral of the story today. not a soccer

bay fc taking on chicago. watch this. the keeper tries to clear the ball. it deflects off his body and goes into the net for the first score of the match. but the red star red stars tied before the half. then in the 63rd minute, allie boots in the go ahead goal. chicago beats bay fc 2 to 1. next up, bay fc is at orlando next saturday. oh the party is just beginning in moraga for the saint mary's rugby team won the division one, a national championship. the gaels beat navy 2622 yesterday in houston, texas. saint mary's is holding a championship rally tuesday afternoon on campus. congratulations to the gaels. that's a look at sports g and terry, back to you. laura garcia and my dad, ed mcsweeney, alum of saint mary's. very proud

tonight. there you go. well, hey, we're back in 60s in just ahead. protesters cleared out in the middle of the night. a look at these tense moments on usc as pro-palestinian demonstrations continue at colleges nationwide. a small theater with big dreams in the heart of san francisco's chinatown. we'll take you backstage of the renovated gat starre

it's a beautiful... ...day to fly. wooooo! offer, and to what israel says is an expanded humanitarian area. the move could signal that they are preparing for a ground invasion of the southern gaza city. israel has not said how

long civilians have to evacuate or how it could impact the rafah crossing being used to bring aid into gaza. the biden administration has threatened consequences for israel should it move forward with a military assault, without without a credible plan to safeguard civilians in rafah? college campuses saw more police action this weekend overnight. la police cleared out one of the original protests at the university of southern california. now these demonstrations are taking on a new front. graduation ceremonies . nbc's adrian brutus is tracking the latest. reporter tonight. colleges nationwide grappling with ongoing demonstrations. i will live forever. before sunrise at the university of southern california, officers cleared this encampment. protesters left willingly. no one was arrested. free. free. palestine. the pro-palestinian demonstrators calling for a cease fire and for the school to divest from israel. eunisses city officials

say they called in police about 12 hours after warning the encampment was a violation of, quote, policies and the law, and that protesters could face arrest. and when the students were cleared by lapd from the center of campus, they shut down this main street. and they also chanted, they do not care. they will be back at the university of virginia in charlottesville, police clashed with demonstrators as they tried to take down an encampment. the school says at least 25 were arrested for trespassing. and it's not just schools at the art institute of chicago, 68 were arrested and charged with trespassing. now, school administrators coast to coast, trying to determine whether or not to change graduation plans. davis. we will not stop. he will not rest. in ann arbor yesterday, nearly 75 protesters interrupted the beginning of commencement at the university of michigan. demonstrators chanting before being moved they have the right to protest. a lot

of these people, you know, their senior year of high school, their graduation was during covid, so they already had that ruined. and then now you got this going on. some universities, like usc, have canceled their main graduation ceremony, while others have increased their security measures. that was aidan broadus reporting an oakland police officer killed in the line of duty last year will be among those honored at a special ceremony tomorrow. 36 year old juan lay was shot and killed while responding to a burglary in progress. california peace officers memorial ceremony is set for tomorrow morning in sacramento. governor newsom, as well as the lieutenant governor, attorney general and the chief justice of the california supreme court are all expected to attend. an investigation is underway after a deadly shooting in broad daylight near oakland's lake merritt. it happened just before noon on first avenue. police say they found a person who had been shot. paramedics responded, but the victim died right there at the scene. the

name has not been released. no arrests have been made. well, traffic is flowing again on highway 101, in the south bay after a deadly crash shut down the road overnight. it happened around 130 this morning on southbound 101 north of fair oaks avenue in sunnyvale. the chp says a speeding driver in a honda crashed into the back of a nissan. the honda driver moved over to the shoulder, got out of her car, then started walking from her car in the roadway. and that is when she was hit by a mazda and killed. chp says the driver of the mazda was under the influence. officers arrested her for dui. all lanes reopened just before 4 a.m. a lawsuit against facebook's parent company, meta, would put more control in the hands of users. now, the suit argues that social media users have the right to control what they see and what they don't see on their feeds. the lawsuit was filed by the knight first amendment institute at columbia on behalf of an amherst professor who wants to release a tool called unfollow everything 2.0. it's a browser extension. it would let users

unfollow all the content fed to them by the algorithm, including content from friends, pages and groups. the thinking is that without the endless addictive feed, users would only see what they want and then leave. meta has declined to comment on that suit. well, we are celebrating asian american, native hawaiian and pacific islander heritage, and tonight we're taking you backstage to a nearly 100 year old theater in the heart of san francisco's chinatown. the historic great star theater, located on jackson street, is a nonprofit. it's undergone extensive renovations and cleaning since the pandemic. new owners brought the theater back to life, and it is now helping to revive a community. nbc bay area's janelle wang has the story from the outside of the great star theater in san francisco's chinatown. 1st may not expect to see this inside. built in 1925, there's so much history as you walk in old show

posters and theater equipment. the 400 plus seats have been re-upholstered, but are still the same frame from nearly 100 years ago. martial arts legend bruce lee used to come here. what i heard is the bruce lee's parents used to perform literally on this stage. he used to hang out in the alley or in the backstage waiting for them. alice chu and roger pinkham own the place. it's also where their relationship started. there's actually a show that i was helping usher at and i invited her for our first date, and he gave me a tour around the theater. i feel very special now. married with a young child, alice didn't know that their first date would lead to this new venture. when roger comes home and tells you, oh, we have this opportunity to sign a lease with this place, what did you what was your reaction? every time i just pass by, i feel like, oh god, this guy is crazy. i was an engineer. i'm still an

engineer. like, how do i run that theater was, like, too crazy dream for me. but eventually the opportunity arised and he convinced me. and we just made the big jump. that big jump came with risks and a lot of doubt. the theater was falling apart. there were rats. there were birds living in the ceiling, crapping all over the seats. there was no heat. there was no hot water. the bathrooms were disgusting. there was mold downstairs. it was. it was bad. i cried, it cried. it's too much. it was a lot. so what was the initial investment you had to do to renovate it? the landlord calls me up in june of 2020 and was like, you know, roger, you still want the great star. it's been a community effort. you know, we put a maybe $100,000 in. it was a lot of elbow grease and a lot of money. but we made it work. the couple reopened the theater in the summer of 2021. since then, it's hosted a few hundred different shows like chinese operas. those

are really cool because they bring a lot of the local chinatown community in people that used to come to this theater when they were children, and to bring more people into the neighborhood. there's a popular star wars burlesque parody which is coming back this summer. they brought 40,000 people into chinatown over the course of three months. every day it was sold out and the line was like a few blocks away. and the vertical show a poll, an aerial performance featuring world poll champions. is why i'm the producer. i'm the director, and i'm an artist and performer in the show as well. paulina volchek, also known as pink puma, travels the world performing. she's been back to great star theater six times. every vertical show has been existed for probably five seven years at this point, but we were always looking for a permanent location for this amazing sporting show. i really love the theater. i enjoy the stage, and

i think this theater deserves to have much bigger show and bigger opportunities. so this is the backstage. this is stage, right? we've got our amp rack over here . this is the rope. so we are a traditional proscenium theater. we've got all the backdrops up there. wait hand manually. yep, yep. this is the altar that the chinese opera still prays to whenever they come in. this is kind of a makeup area, but the main changing rooms are downstairs. down here was actually really gross. alice actually painted this this mural here. wow this is more than just a theater. so many people have a story about great star. it's revitalizing a community. people started coming by, you know, like older chinese people that, you know, they'd be like, oh, i used to. my uncle used to work in the concession stand. i used to come here and watch kung fu movies every day. so it's exciting to be able to balance, you know, giving the community a space for the community and bringing people to the community, which helps everyone else in the community. it looks

good in there. all right. that was janelle wang reporting next year, the great star theater will celebrate 100 years. and by the way, roger works at the theater full time. alice still keeps her day job as an engineer. and that's how they pay the bills. wow. all right, still to come, the sierra is digging out after that spring snowstorm. why? it's causing confusion for some visiting the area. we had a breezy finish to our weekend. we're going to continue that early on into the week, but then start to build that heat. some places might even rea the 80sch

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many people are still trying to dig themselves out from the overnight storm. on friday. people say they were wearing shorts and t shirts, but today they're using shovels and snowblowers to clear parking lots and paths. some places got more than two feet of snow in what could be the last storm of the season. here we are, may 5th or may 4th. yesterday and there was a, you know, two feet of snow. so you got to get your snow blower back out, clear your driveway to get out of your driveway. so you never know what will happen here. indeed there they go. storm avon short, but it was strong. today has been the snowiest day of the season in the sierras. so one of the lines in that last story was that may have been the last snowstorm. i think so. maybe at least for a while. and it was

only fitting. may 4th star wars day. the force was strong with that storm out there. but we're going to be transitioning to summer by the end of this upcoming workweek here in the bay area. we have a couple of seasons this week, actually, and let's start back a little bit with our drought monitor. we haven't checked in on here a little bit. and as far as the state goes, just a few slithers out towards the corners that just remain abnormally dry. but for the bay area, we're going into the second spring in a row to completely drought free. so that's some good news there. after that weekend storm, as far as our headlines as we go on into tonight and early on into the week, clear mornings, cool in those 40s and breezy and mild will help us go into the workweek here. so those allergies will still be picking up. i'm sorry about that, but we should see some calmer conditions as we go on into the late week. actually starting to feel a little bit like summer as we see some upper 70s to some low 80s as we go on into our inland valley. so to start our monday morning up into the north

bay is where i'm looking at a couple of spots that might dip down into those upper 30s. so we're cranking up the ac for our monday morning commute. i know it's going to be a struggle to get out of bed, but the good news is, and the thing that's going to be helping us just get through this week is that that dry weather is going to continue on into the weekend as well. as far as our temperatures for tomorrow, just slightly warmer than what we had today. we'll do low 60s along san francisco and the peninsula out towards the east bay. we'll do 69 in concord and maybe stretching it into those low 70s as we go on into fairfield for our monday afternoon, we're going to watch some showers, mainly to the north. that activity is just building around our state, maybe trickling into the northern coast, but as far as drying out and warming up, we have it for the rest of the week. we will be seeing those temperatures into those 70s and 80s under this ridge of high pressure here. and as i advance this time lapse forward into saturday and sunday, we're looking at a bit of a cool down here with more of that coastal cloud cover. and then behind that, we'll watch

what happens here after we go on past mother day, mother's day. so you have a couple of days to get ready for that. let me show you what the temperatures do in places in santa clara. we're going to go from 60s and 70s to start our workweek to those 80s and looking for the sunglasses, the warm, outfits and the hats of the water, everything that we kind of put aside for a little bit through winter and spring. we need it for this week ahead and even on into the weekend. we could be looking at those 80 sticking around in san francisco will get into some nice, lovely weather as well as we go on and start the week off a little bit breezy, but then those 60s will transform into those 70s. there and then watching that cool down as we go on into saturday and sunday along the coast. but our inland valleys just going to get toasty day after day. here we go from 60 to 70s to some mid 80s. by the time that we get to thursday, friday and saturday. i think that's the warmest stretch of this upcoming week. and you're telling us that the coast is clear for the next six seven days. it's we're not going to

have any precipitation. yeah. we're also looking at most of that fog staying away. so i think it's going to be some really gorgeous beach days. wonderful. lucky for you. you love it. i do all right. up next good news at the gas pump. prices are dropping.ut will it b we're in the middle of... livin' large! and having a big day! in the middle of being the fun uncle! in the middle of being a kid again! beep! beep! there's something for everyone in illinois. the middle of everything!

65 a gallon. obviously that's nationwide. 365 that would cause a line around the block around here. the decrease comes after a surge of $0.59 a gallon earlier this year. analysts say the small drop at the pump may hold for a bit if oil prices stabilize. two main factors lower crude oil prices, weaker u.s. demand because of the high inflation. now we're paying a whole lot more than that in california. obviously, the statewide average $5.35 a gallon in the bay area the average price for a gallon of regular 557 san francisco 547 oakland,

542 san jose. and you do a little bit of shopping. you can beat those prices pretty easily. get them to five. if you look all right, i hope so. all right. countdown to blastoff. after years of delays, tomorrow boeing is finally set to launch astronauts to the international space station for nasa. boeing plans to launch its starliner rocket from cape canaveral. this is video from a previous launch in 2019. but the unmanned capsule never made it into orbit because of software problems. boeing tried again in 2022. this will be the first cred launch of starlwein

and it all starts again tomorrow night for coaches. it is almost tomorrow night. come to think of it. three minutes to go each

bring. they bring three artists into this next phase of the competition. not only is it live, but the rest of the way. it's america's vote that determines who stays. who goes in the competition. that means it's totally out of the coaches hands who will make it into tuesday night's top nine. it really is election year. yes it is. and the voice airs tomorrow night at eight, followed by deal or no deal. i'll end wre it's down to the final four competitors in the value of the final case has gone up to more than $10 million. whoa. so we hope you join us for live local news at 11. right. after all of that here on nbc bay area. all right. and whatever you're doing this week, it's going to be dry. it's going to be dry. we are staying rain free, and we're going to see temperatures warming up. look at san francisco 60s to 70s. that's just the kind of weather that makes everybody else around the country jealous. oh yeah, it does. all right. thanks very much for joining us. have a great night and a great week. hi. and also.

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