peaceful protest in america, violent protest is not protected. peaceful protest is. it's against the law. when violence occurs, destroying property is not a peaceful protest. it's against the law. vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, shutting down campuses, forcing the cancellation of classes and graduations. none of this is a peaceful protest. the president continued to say the protests have not forced him to reconsider his policies, and his administration is continuing to press for a ceasefire deal in gaza along with more aid to relieve the region's humanitarian crisis and bring hamas held hostages home. counterprotest meanwhile, are making themselves heard at the university of pennsylvania members of the israeli american council gathered calling for an end to the ongoing encampment of pro-palestinian activists on the school's campus. supporters of israel say the protests are turning into hate speech, and universities need to crack down on it. pro-palestinian students

set up a protest encampment at penn last week. a clash at uc berkeley's encampment over the war in gaza, a confrontation between a pro-palestine protester and a counter-protester is raising concerns. three people were hurt yesterday. the flashpoint in the incident seemed to be when someone grabbed an israeli flag from a counter protester. nbc bay area's christie smith has more about the ongoing protest. hey hey hey. tensions flared at uc berkeley wednesday evening near a pro-palestinian encampment in front of sproul hall. video shows a small group of people around an israeli flag. someone in that group, who asked to remain anonymous, says a small group approached them in a confrontation began. soon, someone grabbed the israeli flag and a person holding the flag was hit. today on campus, the ongoing pro-palestinian encampment is quiet with some saying those responsible for the confrontation are not part of their demonstration. we had one person who i've never seen at

the camp no, no, none of us knew who disappeared immediately after. we're not sure who this person is, who just grabbed a flag. we spoke with a member of the uc berkeley davis coalition who reiterated the same point, saying the person who grabbed the flag isn't part of the camp. we set a wall in between both, not group, but we set a wall around them to ensure that nobody can try to frame this against us in any way. and we were the ones who pulled back this, this person who tried to grab the flag. according to the university, there was a brief period of skirmishes on sproul plaza yesterday between a group of counter-protesters and some of the protesters in the encampment, three people reported minor injuries. uc police will pursue investigations into the attempted robbery and alleged assault. the security group, which consists mostly of students and community members volunteering to make sure that the campus stays in order, that we don't, cause disruption in at unexpected levels is trying

their best. i don't think anyone holding any flag should be assaulted. we spoke with a rabbinical student not from the university, but on campus today about the situation and the encampment. this just feels like some students who are trying to politically express themselves and i think, not necessarily the most guided direction. those with ties to the encampment say they're trying to stay focused on their goals. our goal is for this university to divest in the same way that they to divest from israel, in the same way that they divested from south africa. christie smith, nbc bay area news. all right, christie, thank you. our raj mathai will speak with political analyst larry gerston on how the biden administration is addressing the university protest and how this will affect his presidential campaign. check out that live interview at seven on nbc. bay area news tonight. rising crime in oakland has been a constant concern on the mind of businesses, residents and city officials. but now there's promising signs with new data showing efforts to reduce crime are working in the town. nbc bay area's velena jones is talking

to people to see if the numbers represent how they feel and what the city credits the decline to a battle to reduce crime in oakland is working, according to the city, new opd data showing homicides, assaults and burglaries are all down for some , it's a sign of progress. it makes me feel good. as a long-term resident of oakland, a city that i really love from bringing, i have two little kids and we've come down to oakland downtown all the time and feel have felt relatively safe. but i think it's feeling better. i would say more and more, whatever they're doing, keep doing it. oakland police data shows a 33% decrease in overall crime from the same time last year. the only crime that's gone up is robberies rising by 11. doctor holly joshi runs the city's department of violence prevention and credits the progress to the revival of ceasefire. it's it really is a holistic approach. you know, it's not it's the police. it's the district attorney's office, it's probation, it's parole,

it's community based organizations and faith based leaders and the department of violence prevention. so ceasefire is a bit all encompassing. ceasefire was re-implemented at the start of this year. the multi-level approach identifies the most likely to commit violent crimes and tries to intervene at the same time, the agency works with community partners to help reduce violence. joshi believes even though robberies are up, those numbers will decline too. in the past, focusing on the 350 people that are driving group and gun violence in this city has led to reductions across the board. but some business leaders say the data doesn't reflect what they see. that the environment that we're operating in, doesn't feel like it's getting better. it feels like it's continuing to get worse. jeff weinstein, ceo of wise sons jewish deli, says their downtown store on 17th and franklin has been broken into ten times since last march, including twice in the last week, once where a suspect stole electronics, and just this week when a group

broke their doors and left with nothing. according to weinstein, no arrests have been made in any of the burglaries, and it feels like when something like this happens, that there just simply isn't a consequence for it. well, data shows signs of improvement. oakland business owners say they want to fill it to numbers are encouraging when we hear it. we've just got to experience it and see it. we have to see it in reality. in oakland, velena jones, nbc, bay area news. new video tonight of a wild crime in the north bay. that is where police spotted on camera they were chasing a stolen ambulance with an emt stuck in the back. this video was posted on social media. police say the ambulance was stolen by a 36 year old sonoma man. it happened in santa rosa as paramedics responded to a call for medical assistance. police say as paramedics were treating him, he jumped in the ambulance and he took off. it's we're so thankful that everybody is okay, but it is certainly a

scary situation and something that reminds us of the, potential dangers that exist on a daily basis. santa rosa police ultimately stopped the ambulance using spike strips. a man was arrested after surrendering outside a santa rosa hospital. big cinco de mayo celebrations are just a couple of days away in san jose. it means two big parades and festivals happening at the same time. last year, san jose police faced heavy criticism for their decision to close streets and onramps during the celebration. but as nbc bay area's damian trujillo reports, this time organizers promise things are going to be different. there will be street closures again this weekend. there's no avoiding them for big events like this. the hope is outreach makes a difference. this year. it used to be known as the largest cinco de mayo parade in the u.s. this year, for the first time, there will be two city sponsored parades and festivals on sunday. the fact that we are big enough to have a parade in downtown san

jose and a parade in east san jose, it just speaks to the beauty and the diversity of our of our of our wonderful city councilman domingo candelas was one of those who criticized san jose police last year for the street and freeway off ramp closures, which had a big impact on small latino businesses. so this year, police became part of the planning process for the parades and festivals. there was a lot of city outreach to ensure everyone is on the same page. we are communicating more than ever, doing, you know, partnering with members of the community, with the small business owners and for the first time doing a city sponsored parade and cruising event. and while police will be enforcing traffic laws this weekend, they'll also be part of the community festivities. you will see us as part of the parade, and we have been in collaboration again with a lot of our community members to make sure that we are part of the conversation, that we're part of the celebration this year. el nuevo rancho grande western, where on alum rock avenue says they lost roughly $6,000 last

year on cinco de mayo when the city and chp closed streets and freeway off ramps. and although more of the same is expected this year, the owner says at least the city warned him ahead of time. still, javier sandoval expects a big loss again this year. i'm worried you know, because it's sunday is a good day for us, you know, like the weekends is the days where we do the sales for to pay our bills. sandoval hopes foot traffic makes up for some of the losses this year, since the east side parade will be near his store. he's even promoting the city festivities with a flier on his storefront in the south bay. damian trujillo, nbc, bay area news. nbc bay area is a proud participant in both cinco de mayo parades happening this weekend. well, shares of tech giant apple surged today after a key announcement as part of its second quarter earnings report, the company announced an extended share buyback program. apple says its board authorized $110 billion in share repurchases. it's the largest buyback in company history. it

comes amid news that iphone sales fell 10. however overall apple revenue dropped just 4. that's lower than analysts were expecting and still ahead, opening up new doors for renters. one bike and car at a time. how a new pilot program is expanding green transit options for some san jose residents. and one man just returned from a grueling ultra marathon on the other side of the world. during those tough times in the race, his nephew's fight to survive kept him running. we'll introduce you to him in our bay area proud segment. i'm chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. plenty of sunshine and 70s and a few 80s today. but all that's going to go away as we do have some major changes by this weekend. that does include the return of rain. heavy at times as we head through saturday morning. of course, we're going to take you through the full timeline of this. but the other thing when it comes to rainfall totals, this is the remarkable

thing here for may, quite an unusual system that's going to bring us anywhere from 10 to 25 times our normal daily may rain amount. i've got more looks of that

san jose unveiled what it calls a mobility hub. the pilot program just started at an apartment complex near the berryessa bart station in san jose. each resident there will get access to two rentable electric vehicles and some e-bikes. there will also be an on site screen showing vta and bart transit schedules. south bay officials say the goal is to offer green options for people to get around. for residents. just like jennifer delgado, she's a working single mother taking college classes and doesn't have a car with a full class load and a part time work. my reality is that i can't afford a car payment, which means having to get creative. as far as getting around, this is just an amazing opportunity for me to be able to get to daily errands. doctor's appointment, grocery stores, each person of the complex also gets a $40 lyft

credit each month to help them get around town. it was paid for through a grant from the state air resources board. jia, i've interviewed a few extreme endurance athletes over the years and have learned a little about what they need to succeed. there's training the body, of course, but there's also training their minds. how will they motivate themselves to keep going when things get tough? for one north bay athlete, the answer to that is easy because he knows someone who has it pretty hard. you know that saying about when in rome, doing what the people around you are doing? well, when john verdin moved to marin county a few years ago, lots of people out on bikes, out on trails, and it was a big impetus for me to say, well, if we're living here, i should be taking advantage of that. so john started out by biking, but then a friend asked for help, placing him on an ultramarathon and john switched over to running. to prepare, i went to the race, paced him for about 2627 miles, and i was

like, i love this. like the sense of community within, within the running space, within the ultra community. and so as soon as i got home, signed up for my own 100 k race. and when that went well, john went looking for other bigger challenges and found a huge one on the other side of the world, the marathon de sables. six days and 160 miles of pure punishment across the sahara desert. so much sand and so much heat that by about the third day, john was wondering if this time he'd asked a bit too much of his body. there were moments where, like, you're running out of water, you're tapping your energy reserves and like, why am i doing this? hey, dude, how are you doing? well the answer to that question for john was clear. did you see any snakes? its buddy. you know, i didn't. buddy is john's ten year old nephew who has spent nearly half his short life battling osteosarcoma. he has been through a number of different

treatment cycles, went through a number of different chemo cycles originally, and then the decision was made to actually amputate his his knee. and so when things got really tough in his trek across the desert, john had only to think of how tough a journey buddy has been on to know what real perseverance looks like, the incredible resilience, both emotional, physical and mental. here of how he lives. his day to day life has been something that sticks near and dear to my heart, and john even used the marathon as part of a fundraiser for mib agents, a pediatric osteosarcoma nonprofit. the idea being that if john can conquer something like the sahara desert, maybe one day doctors can conquer diseases like buddy's. it's all he says about being up for the challenge. how do we get that out there and show to the world that anything is possible? wow. amazing. not only. i mean, just finishing. yes. just finishing. absolutely. wow. and john

doesn't have a long career ultramarathoning. but out of about 1000 runners, he came in 40th. oh my gosh, that's. and the first finisher of all the americans. oh my gosh. i mean he has something to run for. which is exactly. and the mental part of that is so, so important because there are going to be challenging times. he talked about like a 54 mile day in 130 degree, oh my gosh, so taxing on your body to be able to get through that. absolutely. absolutely wonderful. that's phenomenal. no. 137 the temperature in the in the forecast. thankfully thankfully not. yes. sunshine some 70s and 80s. we have one more day of this before we start to get into some colder weather. and yes, those rain chances they are hanging on as we head through your weekend forecast, let's take it into that microclimate weather and we'll get you another view of this blue sky out here to the east bay and walnut creek, and currently 77 degrees a breeze out of the west southwest at 17mph. just making it comfortable, not looking at any kind of damaging wind here through tonight or tomorrow. we're going to dip it down here to 72 by 7 p.m. so comfortable

through the next few hours and then eventually some low 60s here at ten and also 11:00. now i'm confident we will get that one more day of sunshine and warm temperatures from this area. high pressure. it's moving off towards the east, but it's still going to block the storm track here, at least for now. then eventually this storm system that's going to be moving closer tomorrow will start to get here by saturday morning. i'll have those timing and totals here in about a minute, but let's roll it right here into tomorrow morning's forecast. we're back down again to 54 here through the peninsula san francisco have you in the mid 50s and the same thing here for the east bay. so not too many changes across those microclimates as you head out the door through tomorrow morning. daytime highs will cool off a couple of degrees but nothing too substantial here. we're still looking at lots of 70s beautiful weather tomorrow afternoon here for the south bay 77 in cupertino, 78 milpitas and those upper 70s for morgan hill and gilroy will hang in the low to mid 70s here from oakland down to fremont. and you get out

towards antioch will be at 80. the peninsula sunshine a little bit breezy here at times 10 to 20 mile per hour gusts and 74 here in redwood city. san francisco. also gusty at times, up to about 25 for the gusts. sustained winds at 19 and a chilly 59. here in the marina we have that ocean breeze and that's why we're not able to get any 70s here across san francisco tomorrow. and right here for the north bay 77 in napa. so we got that sunshine tomorrow. but here comes that rain as we head through saturday. and every single parameter i'm looking at here in our weather office continues to show this happening on saturday. i still don't see any way we head into dry weather through the weekend. so the timeline on this right now, it is kind of condensed to saturday morning, starts to get here around 4:00 or five and 6:00 up towards marin, napa, sonoma counties and those areas in yellow also orange. those will be some heavier downpours at times. we think this will get down to the peninsula in east bay by 8:00 in the morning, and certainly to the south bay by 11 a.m. then all of this should start to wrap

up here by the late afternoon and begin to move out by about 4:00. rainfall totals still locked in for quarter to a half inch. some of the higher elevations in that slightly orange and darker orange color could see about three quarters of an inch. so pretty good hit here of rainfall for may 10 to 25 times our normal daily rain rate of about two hundredths of an inch. look at this sierra snow. one day totals 21in kingsville 12in. tahoe, 20. in kirkwood. snow starting around pollock pines. we may see some road closures just because it's so much snow in a short amount of time, so be ready for those winter conditions. but here's the best part we clear it out on sunday. it will stay cool, but at least it's a dry back half of the weekend. we'll go down to 59 on saturday and then we'll see it go back up to 68 on sunday. so, you know, at least we've had beautiful weather through the workweek. and then we're giving you that gift on saturday. gift? yes most weekends this year i

know we've only had five back to back weekends of like sunshine and dry weather. it's been wild. and you know, on the east coast, they've also been kind of stuck in the same pattern at the same time. so yeah, jeff, thank you very much. all right. well coming up, protecting yourself against online attacks, a strong warning about a rise of cyber attacks by hackers areargeting and t

unaffordable place to live in america credit news researchers measured the percentage of neighborhoods financially within the reach of the average married couple of the ten cities with

the most unaffordable neighborhoods. not much of a surprise. four are in california . both los angeles and san jose were found to be 100% of unaffordable for the average married coupleego and san francisco also made the list , with both cities coming in ahead of new york and miami. well, cyber attacks are on the rise. the top u.s. intelligence official warned congress today that the number of ransomware attacks worldwide grew as much as 74% in 2023. the alarming uptick has intelligence leaders worried that attacks in the near future could cause disruptions or at least a more significant impact than they have in the past. another disturbing fact is that u.s. entities are the most heavily targeted, with ransomware attacks in sectors like health care doubling from a year ago. businesses are being urged to protect themselves and their customers with good cybersecurity practices. some house lawmakers are calling on the ftc to investigate whether tiktok violated laws protecting

children. they're asking the agency to examine messages tiktok sent to users as the house fast tracked a bill to force tiktok's chinese based owner to divest or face a nationwide ban. the lawmakers want to know if children under the age of 13 receive the messages. tiktok says notifications only went to adults. okay, i couldn't get enough of this story today. garvin thomas favorite story of the day an orangutan takes his health into his own hands. this astonishing discovery by researchers want t

his injury, and it was in a pretty unprecedented way. researchers think he got in a fight with another male orangutan. the next day, they saw raccoons. you see him with that cut on his face? well, here's the interesting part. they saw raccoons chew up some leaves, make it into a paste, and put it on his face. it turns out that successfully prevented infection and the wound healed in just a week, researchers say. obviously, this is evidence that orangutans can identify, buy and use pain relieving plants. this is so incredible. but i'm actually surprised that they haven't witnessed this before as much as we, you know, study

these animals. but really cool. all right. hey, don't forget you can watch our newscast 24/7 on roku and other streaming platforms. and raj mathai. joining us now with what's coming up now at 530. here's what we're working on a protest actually led to a celebration. funding gets restored to a san francisco health clinic, a well known one. the major change that brought the money back. also, it took hours to get a san francisco fire under control. the reason this building presented a unique challenge to firefighters, plus a gender gap within the san jose fire department. we investigate what two former firefighters call a sexist culture. the news at 530 starts right now. thanks for joining us. i'm gia vang and i'm raj mathai. for more than 100 years, san francisco city clinic has been providing locals with an array of women's health and sexual health services. today, members of the lgbtq community planned to hold a demonstration