i-80 snarling traffic in both directions. we're going to have the latest on this situation unfolding right now. plus, two san jose police officers are recovering after being shot. what we know about the gunman and the moments before shots were fired. and waymo is expanding its driverless car

testing, where they will be hitting the road and who will be able to take a ride. good evening. this is nbc bay area news tonight. i'm audrey asistio. we'll get to those stories in just a moment, but we want to start with that breaking news we've been following. now i-80 shut down both directions for nearly three hours. the good news westbound lanes are starting to reopen. the bad news? eastbound and remains closed. take a look at this backup here. it's going to take a while, of course, to clear traffic had backed up for about 16 miles. this all started with a high speed chase and standoff in rohnert park in sonoma county. that's where a woman reported someone shot at her car while on 101. the chp says officers chased this driver through three counties. police eventually used spike strips to slow that car down, bringing it to a stop right there on i-80 in fairfield. chp has been

negotiating. they have been negotiating with that driver since around 330. then about 30 minutes ago, officers broke into the vehicle. that standoff started at the end of a high speed chase. you can see here police breaking into that gray car. an ambulance was seen pulling up to the scene not long after that. we're not sure exactly what went down. break into the passenger side of that car. police broke the back windows. they were seen trying to throw some kind of smoke canister into the car. you could see the smoke billowing behind the car. there again. westbound lanes of 80 starting to reopen. now that the standoff is over, we of course are going to continue to follow this. bring you any updates online as soon as we get them. we're going to take you to san jose. now, this is where tonight, two officers and a suspect are recovering from gunshot wounds after a shootout inside a motel. police say that suspect was planning on shooting a mother and three children. nbc bay area's jocelyn moran is live at regional

medical. jocelyn, do we know how the officers are doing tonight? yeah. audrey. both officers were taken to local hospitals. one of them is here at regional medical. we're told he is in critical but stable condition. the other officer suffered moderate injuries but was treated and released. now, the acting san jose police chief is calling the officer's acts heroic. tonight, two officers are recovering after a shootout with a gunman on thursday night at the extended stay hotel on san ignacio avenue. i thought i was dreaming and heard, like, fireworks. and then all of a sudden, about two minutes later, bam bam, bam. police say it began when a woman called saying a man whom she had a domestic violence restraining order against was on his way to the hotel. that man, 33 year old kevin briones, a convicted felon with a long criminal history. police say this body cam photo shows officers confronting briones in a third floor hallway. that's when police say

briones reached into a duffel bag and pulled out a stolen gun. the suspect fled, running away from the officers while continuing to shoot multiple rounds at them. at least one officer returned fire and struck the suspect. the suspect jumped from the third floor onto the parking lot where officers arrested him. inside, the hotel was a terrified mother and three children, and the two wounded officers, one hit in the shoulder, the other hit in the upper body, knee and thigh. police believe briones was coming to shoot that mother and her children. it became apparent that their lives were likely saved by the responding officers in the room was a survivor of a recent domestic violence attack. we learned that the suspect had an arrest warrant for that domestic violence incident. and tonight, there continues to be a police presence outside of the hospital. as far as the officer recovering here, he is expected to survive. as far as the suspect, we're told he is also in critical but stable condition . audrey. all right. jocelyn,

i'm wondering, what are we learning about the officers tonight? i understand one of them is a rookie. yeah, the officer who is in critical but stable condition has about one year of experience. sources say he is affectionately called the rookie by colleagues and the other officer. he has about three and a half years of experience. all right, jocelyn, thank you so much for that live update. we will continue to follow the story all night long. there is still a lot of questions tonight. and joining us now is michael linenger. he is a retired police detective and a security consultant. michael, thank you so much for joining us. so we know that this started as a domestic violence incident. does that change how police approach the situation? why are these incidents so dangerous for officers? officers domestic violence disturbances are generally considered to be one of the most dangerous calls

that an officer can respond to, because both the people involved in the relationship, there's going to be some volatility, there's going to be some control issues, and you're walking into a set of circumstances that you have no idea, are there weapons, who's hitting whom? are there other people involved? there's just a lot of unknowns. and you take extreme care. so many unknowns and things are happening so quickly, obviously, especially during this incident when officers arrived, it sounds like it was a chaotic scene. what do you think about the police response? response? it sounded like the police response , was what it should have been. the guy had been there once before, they knew it was domestic violence related. it was a hotel. so this is also not a typical scenario where you're going to someone's apartment or residence. so you had quite possibly a staircase involved. an elevator involved. it sounds like this may have taken place actually in the hallway or in

close proximity to the hallway, which really leaves a limited amount of space to deal with. obviously a lot still going on the investigation is ongoing. what comes next? so this is considered a significant investigation, and they have attributed to great number of resources to this. the victim needs to be interviewed in an in-depth manner to find out the circumstances of last night. prior circumstances, the circumstances that led to the arrest warrant. depending on the children's ages, they need to be interviewed, any witnesses at the scene need to be interviewed, and of course, the officers that were shot will need to be interviewed when they can be, this is going to be this at this point would still be considered very much an ongoing investigation. and as you saw from chief joseph's, press conference, there weren't a lot of answers. and that would that's to be expected at this juncture in the investigation. all right. michael linenger, retired police detective and

security consultant. thank you so much for your time and your insight. appreciate it. thank you. and we, of course, are going to continue to follow this story all night for the very latest. when we're not on the air, you can go to our website nbcbayarea.com. well, it has been nearly two weeks since pro-palestinian protesters first set up tents on uc berkeley's campus. protesters say they have no plans on leaving until the university meets their demands. among those demands, divestment from any company that does business with israel and supporting a cease fire tonight, the camp has over 150 tents filled with supporters and organizers expect that number to still grow as the pro-palestine demonstration gains ground. some jewish students worry about their safety on campus. we take, you know, great encouragement from what we're seeing at other campuses. every day, more campuses are going live with their own encampments. and i think we are all really united

in this struggle to get these universities to divest. it structures. how our students move around campus, whether they even come there anymore, i, i cannot even begin to convey to you how disturbed i am and how much i fret about this. the university started increasing security yesterday and providing an escort service for concerned students. last friday, a law student was allegedly punched while filming that demonstration, and this week, three people were injured during a confrontation over an israeli flag campus. police are investigating both of those incidents. we do have an update now to a story we've been tracking for months. driverless car service is expanding in the bay area you'll soon see waymo cars without drivers giving rides to passengers. in san mateo county, waymo is the autonomous vehicle company owned by google, and our business and tech reporter scott budman is here to talk to us about it. and

scott, this is still stirring up debate. yeah, it really is, audrey. and it's starting to spread throughout the bay area. san mateo county, home to a lot of tech companies, certainly home to a lot of tech wealth, but not exactly welcoming. waymo with open arms. here's where we stand right now. waymo, which is owned by google, says this will be a gradual rollout. the first passengers will be waymo employees, but eventually everyone will be able to get driverless taxi rides, and the service will expand throughout the peninsula. but this all happens after county officials asked for and then were denied a waiting period. they say they wanted to pump the brakes on the proposal because they don't fully trust the technology. after seeing several accidents and stalls involving driverless cars in san francisco, the three three ring circus of autonomous vehicles is being brought to san mateo county. and what happened in san francisco can happen here , and it's going to be that one incident. and i'm afraid that would happen in san francisco is

going to be replayed here in san mateo. okay so obviously some county officials really concerned about this. scott, i know you've been speaking with people in san mateo county who live in that area. what are they telling you? also a mixed bag, audrey. some people say, hey, this is great. it's another way to get around. we appreciate uber. we appreciate lyft. this is another way to sort of have a taxi service. on the other hand, some people say they're a little nervous about it. they've seen the news reports especially. and to be fair, waymo has had very few incidents. it was cruz, another company owned by gm that had more incidents. but it has some people saying, hey, if they come here where the streets are also small, like san francisco, we're likely to have problems. and who knows how safe this really is going to be. i should say that also, waymo recently launched in los angeles with its driverless taxi service. waymo claims to have 50,000 people on the app waiting to try to get a ride. so it seems pretty popular down there. but so far, people are kind of waiting and seeing

it up here on the peninsula. sure, you know, waymo is ready to get their cars on the road. some people, like county officials, not ready. can the county actually still try to fight back? they do have some ways to do that. in fact, just next week there's going to be a hearing. and that hearing will take up the issue whether or not counties and cities, as opposed to the state of california, can decide for themselves if they want driverless taxis to be in their city or county. that's what san mateo county was trying to take advantage of, but it's not there yet. if it happens that way, then the california organization say the cpuc won't be able to say they're coming to your town or your county. it'll be more on a city's rights, i guess. idea. and, scott, we've talked about this for months now. right. and it's a discussion because there have been problems in accidents. right? there have been and there have been, you know, in waymo's case, a couple of accidents, sort of a snap back where someone lit a car on fire and, you know, people just don't trust this all that much, certainly in the way of crews. there have been a lot of accidents and people are wary

and some people say, hey, i love to take this ride. it's fun, it's easy. i don't have to get behind the wheel. i can give it up to a machine. but other people, of course, don't trust the machines. and so i think it's going to take a while before this really smooths its way out. okay all right, scott, thank you. you bet. coming up, new study looks at see you. right. their brains the growth researchers just found. and how it could impact our health. and new businesses are opening in the south bay. the help the city is offering. and where the money is coming from. stay with us

grown over the last 90 years. in fact, data shows that the brain surface area of people born in the 1970s is 15% larger than those born in the 1930s. so what does that growth spurt mean for our overall health? well, joining us now is doctor charles decarli. he is the director of alzheimer's disease research at uc davis and the lead author of this study. doctor, this is pretty fascinating. how did you discover this? well it's interesting, so in the framingham heart study, which is what this is based on, is we noticed that over the decades in

a similar duration, that there's been less incidence of dementia. and so i just wanted to understand what's happening with the brain over that same period of time. oh, wow. okay so you noticed that. and then you started looking into it as our brains get bigger. i wondering, are we getting smarter? is that what that means? yeah, that's a good question. the answer is simply yes. we are getting smarter, in fact, there is a phenomenon called the flynn effect, in which the iq has been steadily going up. there's some debate about it recently, but i will just say that that has more to do with how old the test that's based on the flynn effect has become. so it's not accurate, it probably represents our early life development and all the, you know, more information that we're getting. so good early life health, good prenatal care, good nutrition,

good education and lots of new data. our brains are responding. you mentioned a little earlier, doctor, that you started looking into this because you saw less cases of dementia over the years. that's why you started this study. what impact could this have on diseases like dementia and alzheimer's? right. so to the degree that this represents a better brain, that it's likely to reduce the incidence of late life dementia by creating better reserve or better resilience to common age related diseases like alzheimer's disease. so is this a trend then? will our brains just continue to grow? that's a really good question. we have to investigate that further, this was based on three generations, and unfortunately, only, the

fourth generation hasn't joined the framingham heart study, so we'll just have to wait a little bit, i suspect that that it will continue. maybe not so quickly. i think we've had a lot of changes in health since the 1930s, as you know, and we'll just have to wait to see whether the trend continues or not. okay. and i know you're going to be staying on top of it for us. bring us the latest when you get the results. the doctor, charles decarli with uc davis, thank you so much for your time. oh, you're most welcome. it's been a pleasure. well, the city of san jose is helping five small businesses open pop up shops in empty storefronts, and vacancies have been an issue since the pandemic started, as you may know. so san jose decided to convert those empty stores into temporary pop ups to draw more people to the area. and now, five minority women owned businesses are open on paseo de san antonio, near san jose state. the community loves small business and that is exactly

what we're here to do. i'm so excited to serve the san jose community. the storefront activation program is part of the city's budget. under the program, each shop was given a $3,000 grant to renovate their space, and the city is subsidizing rent. up next, there are clear skies across the bay area tonight, but major changes are on the way. you're going to want t

after heavy rains. right now, cars are only allowed through in convoys twice a day. well, today governor newsom announced that the road will reopen by may 25th, which is memorial day weekend. and he says the feds will help pay for repairs. and if you do plan to drive, you know somewhere else out of town this weekend, just be ready for some rain. it's coming back in in a big way tomorrow. kind of a february sized storm we're seeing shaping up as we head into the forecast. now it's going to stay dry tonight, but then by tomorrow morning, things start to pick up. let me show you more details on that forecast, and we'll start it off with the hourly timeline here. and as we head through tomorrow morning, we do expect this to start right up to the north bay, right around five and 6:00 in the morning, still over the

north bay for the most part at 7:00 with some heavy downpours. this moves to the peninsula and east bay by 9 a.m, and then we'll stay with that rainfall in the south bay into 11:00 in the morning. we'd still be into more rain continuing up into the north bay by 11 a.m. then all of this should start to get out of here as we head through tomorrow afternoon and evening rain totals. because of that zone of heavier rain. just kind of sticking with us throughout the bay area. look pretty good for a half to three quarters for all of us, but look at the mountains here in that red color. we could see up to about an inch at some of the highest elevations. not only rain here, but if you're going to the sierra, be ready for winter conditions, maybe even some road closures that some of the highest elevations tomorrow afternoon and evening. and in about a ten hour window, we'd see 21in at kingvale, 11 in south tahoe, 20 in kirkwood, snow starting right around pollock pines with four inches there. so we got the rain. we've got the snow, and now we have the cold temperatures, 50s tomorrow morning and after 70s and 80s this week. this is it for daytime highs only 56 in napa. also those mid upper 50s

right here through the south bay. not going to be wet all weekend long. we should see dry weather and sunshine on sunday staying on the cool side. but overall 68. and then we're getting into some hotter weather. thankfully as we head into the end of next week and next weekend is looking like 80s will be back. so get over this and better weather ahead. yes i love that the 80s are coming back. thanks so much jeff. appreciate it and coming up tonight in prime time, password at eight, followed by an all new two hour dateline at nine on. and then we'll see you back here at 11. for more live and local news. well that's going to do it for us here at 7 p.m. for everyone here at nbc bay area. thank you so much for joining us . enjoy the evening and we'll see you here

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