in the city for more than 150 years, but budget issues could force deep cuts to service. >> it is that sort of like the, the framework of san francisco. i think when we think about san francisco, we think about the cable cars and we think about sort of what it means for community from ktvu, fox two news. >> this is the four. >> they are legendary in san francisco, beloved by tourists and residents. but cable car service as well as bus and train service could be cut as sf muni faces a huge deficit. some difficult decisions lie ahead. welcome everyone to the four. this afternoon. i'm heather holmes and i'm alex savage. >> despite muni's ridership rebound reaching 75% of pre-pandemic levels and ongoing deficit could affect a series of services. ktvu tom vacar. joining us live now to tell us

about some of the possible cuts that are on the table. tom. >> well, they have to make up for some $300 million worth of deficits and everything's on the table. but you have to ask yourself a question. is mothballing the cable cars any kind of solution at all? a muni study suggests, amongst other things, suspending san francisco's legendary cable car and historical streetcar service as soon as mid 2025 to help make up part of a $300 million budget shortfall. we asked visitors waiting in the rain to ride them about this. >> i think it'd be really sad. we've been here a couple of times and it's been a highlight for every time we've come, and it's certainly a highlight for the kids and i think it is that sort of like the, the, the framework of san francisco. >> it's just such a big attraction. i don't think cutting that is going to be the smartest idea. >> you obviously see what we're doing with our time. this is

what we came to do. you know, i mean, this is this is san francisco. >> pre-pandemic, the national transit database says san francisco's cable car system had $70 million in operating expenses, collected $24 million in revenues and incurred a $46 million loss. but what are the benefits to the city? >> certainly, the cable cars not only attract visitors to the city, but they keep people here, people who are spending money in restaurants in hotels, in shops around the city. so yes, there's definitely a good economic benefits from the cable cars this attracts. >> so many tourists and then more money, better for the economy. >> for san francisco, almost 10 million folks ride the cable cars every year. the statue of liberty gets less than 4 million visitors, but muni's boss seems to be talking at cross purposes. we are not planning for any massive service cuts. >> what we're trying to describe

is what is at stake. in order to close a $300 million structural deficit, we need to make catastrophic cuts to the system. >> muni's boss says he simply cannot avoid cuts without finding new revenue sources, which muni says it is working on. ask nasa, they'll tell you you can't climb to the stars unless you have the right transportation. and for san francisco, little cable cars that climb halfway to the stars is definitely the thing to do around the globe. >> they're one of the reasons, like the golden gate bridge, like alcatraz, like the transamerica pyramid, that people are familiar with, with san francisco. >> i think when we think about san francisco, we think about the cable cars, and we think about sort of what it means for community. >> and just about every rider we talked to says that what muni should do is consider that wider community and what it delivers

for the overall community in terms of hotel rooms, dinners and a lot of money to san francisco reporting live. tom vacar, ktvu, fox two news. >> yeah, you certainly have to think about all of that and what they mean to the city. and tourism. tom vacar live in san francisco. tom. thank you. >> well, the fiscal cliff for public transit is steep for agencies beyond the bay area. as san diego, washington, d.c, new york city, philadelphia and seattle. all right. now dealing with huge budget shortfalls, some of them in the hundreds of millions of dollars. the challenges fueled questions about the future of public transit nationwide. >> yeah, certainly not an issue we are only facing here in the bay area. for more insight on how these deficits might affect public transit moving forward, we're joined now by joshua shenk, who is a partner at infra strategies, a transportation and financial advisory firm, and a researcher at the mineta transportation institute. joshua, always appreciate the time. it's good to see you here. we talk about all of these transit agencies, including muni

in san francisco, needing to find ways to boost revenue somehow. aside from service cuts, which no one likes, what are some of the options that are out there? >> well, there's different sources of revenue that you can raise at the state level at the local level and at the federal level, as you probably know, there was recently election, an election in the bay area where voters rejected the idea of taxing rideshare companies like uber and lyft to help pay for public transit. and that's partly why there's a deficit in place there in new york, the idea of congestion pricing was put on hold as a way to pay for transit. so there are local sales tax measures or other taxation measures that can help fund public transit. a lot of other cities have been successful in passing them, but in some places it has proven very difficult. >> right? so if these measures are not approved and if state municipalities don't find a way to plug these holes, well then what? >> yeah. i mean, you're really in trouble because you do face the kinds of cuts that i heard.

jeff tumlin talking about. those are really dangerous because once you start cutting, you can't really cut your way to prosperity when it comes to public transit. you can cut, but then that deficit is going to keep coming back because you're going to have fewer riders and there's going to be less support for public transportation. so you really have to go out there and rally support for the funding. that's necessary. and that includes going to the federal and state levels as well. yeah. >> and you talk about that failed proposition in san francisco that would have taxed the rideshare companies in order to fund muni. it sort of makes you think that there is not really a great appetite among the electorate for these sorts of tax measures to, to fund transit. how if you are in charge of these transit agencies here and you're trying to put these measures on the ballot, we know there's an effort to put a statewide measure on the ballot in california to fund transit. how do you convince people that public transit is important, even if maybe they are not someone who uses it every day? >> yeah, i think you've hit on

the real issue there, right? i mean, pre-pandemic, you had a lot more transit riders, but even then, transit ridership per capita was on decline in most cities in this country and across the across the nation. and so the support for public transit was waning. i think the way that places have been successful is by convincing people that public transit will solve challenges beyond just getting you to and from work, which now many people are not doing. every day. and so they don't necessarily see the benefit. there. but public transit can do is it can, first of all, provide a lifeline for people who don't have cars and have no other means of getting to work. and it can. secondly, dramatically improve our environmental outcomes and potentially provide an alternative to traffic congestion if it's sold. on that basis, we've seen that transit can be successful at the ballot. >> yeah, we've talked a lot about remote work and really the reliance, when you look at for example, agencies like bart and muni, which relied heavily on the tech industry, right, which a lot of those folks are now

working from home. so we know about the role of remote work. we also know that the pandemic really chased riders from busses and trains. so my question to you is why haven't they returned? >> well, certainly work from home is a part of it. i think another part of it is the perception, whether true or not, of a lack of security and a lack of comfort on the trains. as we've seen, homelessness and drug use certainly become a part of many transit systems across the country, and transit agencies can't do that alone. they need help from the larger government agencies and municipalities to provide an environment that feels safe and secure for everyone. because taking public transit is not just about when you're on the system itself, you have to get there. you have to feel safe walking to and from your bus or your train. so it it's going to take a comprehensive effort to improve security for people to feel comfortable returning. >> yeah, it sort of feels like on some level, you know, we keep sort of talking about this mark of returning to pre-pandemic

ridership levels. we talk about the fact that muni is close to that weekday ridership, 75% even higher on the weekends. but, but and then it makes you wonder how come the agency still remains so deep in the red with those structural deficits? >> yeah. and the answer is that public transportation costs money and does not pay for itself. and it requires subsidy almost everywhere in the world, but especially in the united states, where cars have enjoyed tremendous subsidies and people tend to rely on private automobiles as their primary mode of transportation. so in this country, if we're going to be successful with public transit, we have to get used to the fact that it does require subsidy. and that's why even before the pandemic, there was a substantial amount of revenue needed from taxes to be able to support public transit. but i think the evidence is there that without public transit, cities do fall apart like you need public transit to sustain your city. you can't just abandon it. and that, unfortunately, will mean people are going to have to

pay more. >> yep. agencies. they've got to figure out a way to grow the appeal of mass transit. no doubt about it. really appreciate your time today. thank you so much. >> all right. my pleasure. >> mexico's largest airline is expanding its operations at oakland international airport. volaris airlines and the port of oakland today announced a $200 million investment at the airport. this will include increasing the number of daily volaris flights from oakland to mexico and el salvador to nine, and it will also add routes to three new destinations. some of the new flights are set to begin in march. >> i am proud to announce three new routes to mexico. okay, to monterrey, zacatecas and the long deserved daily flight between oakland and cabo san lucas. volaris first major beach destination served from the san francisco bay area. >> tickets for the new routes are available for sale now. volaris also has seven other nonstop destinations in mexico and el salvador. >> well, the company of

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to prevent another pandemic had their last chance to weigh in and question top officials. >> poor decisions made by federal agencies shattered trust in our public health institutions and left americans questioning the very leadership that was supposed to protect them. >> this select subcommittee has spent two years fanning the flames of people's mistrust in public health and taking advantage of their fears. >> leaders from the nih, cdc, and fda testified about lessons learned covering issues like drug supply shortages and the importance of having researchers in foreign countries. they also told lawmakers they learned key lessons about quickly producing tests and vaccines. >> plans must be put into place to assess potential interventions for their value to all communities of our nation. >> with a new administration taking over in january and promising a dramatic overhaul of federal agencies. democrats on the committee urged colleagues not to cut funding.

>> i think that one of the things that we've seen through the course of the pandemic is how stretched that we were pulling from every corner of the fda. funding cuts will result in exacerbation of that. >> that committee says it will write up a full report of its findings over the past two years. in new york. connor hansen, fox news. >> the satirical news publication the onion has won the bid for alex jones conspiracy platform infowars in a bankruptcy auction. but a federal judge has now ordered a hearing into how the acquisition was made. the onion today confirmed its purchase of infowars, a move that was backed by the families of sandy hook elementary school shooting victims. jones owes more than $1 billion in defamation suit compensation to those families for falsely claiming the sandy hook shooting in 2021 was a hoax. the onion says it will turn infowars into a humor website. it plans to launch new gun safety campaigns on the site

and partner with the organization everytown for gun safety. >> well, we will basically be trying to do through this new alliance is reach all americans. and the truth is that americans believe in gun safety. they believe in common sense. >> after onions acquisition, lawyers for jones questioned the bidding process. today, a judge in jones's bankruptcy ordered a hearing for next week into how the auction was held. >> turning now to our weather here in the bay area and another series of showers for some people out there today, giving you a live look now at a clear sky at the oakland estuary. let's bring in our meteorologis, mark tamayo. and mark was a bit caught off guard when that shower moved through san francisco earlier today. >> yeah, that's right. heather could be a tricky pattern out there. you see, sunshine, you go for a walk and all of a sudden you're trying to run away from those raindrops. so yeah, some scattered rain across parts of the bay area, some instability

leading to some pretty good downpours as well. take a look at the rainfall totals. the storm totals over the past couple of days. occidental about an inch and a half of rainfall. santa rosa 0.52. napa 0.08. oakland zero six and menlo park 0.02. san francisco an interesting pattern. hard to pick out one rainfall total. you can see some of the rainfall totals just scattered around the city, ranging from .01 to point one 2 to 0.21. so even light rain amounts in parts of san francisco or some heavy rain amounts as well. so kind of gives you an idea of the scattered nature of these these clouds moving across the bay area, the rain clouds moving across the area. here's the satellite and the radar right now we still have some rain showers showing up out there. as you can see, up in portions of the north bay. so closer to american canyon, closer to napa, moving into portions of solano county as well as we continue to move the maps around all afternoon, we've been watching some activity. as you can pick out here, moving into concord, antioch, approaching discovery bay. so still some lingering rain showers could be linked up with a pretty good downpour as

well. and in the south bay, not nearly as much coverage here to show you, at least from san jose to morgan hill to gilroy. but a little bit of some scattered green showing up on the radar this afternoon. here's our live camera looking out. this is from san francisco. there is the golden gate park looking out toward ocean beach. so we have some cloud cover kind of moving in and moving out. you can see offshore a lot of white water. so we do have high surf advisories posted near our shoreline temperatures right now. it's a cool afternoon upper 50s to the 60s. san jose right now 63, san francisco 57. a cold start tomorrow morning. temperatures in the 30s and 40s. in fact, that cold weather pattern is going to really stick around, especially into saturday morning. here's the forecast model. in the short term, it's picking up with the cloud cover. some scattered rain showers out there, and there's still a chance tonight at 8:00. and this is midnight. you'll notice maybe some activity developing near portions of the coastline. this is midnight. and then into friday. we should have partly cloudy skies, a slight chance of a lingering shower, but for the

most part, more sunshine tomorrow. that cold air will continue to settle into the area. we'll have more on your forecast with the full update coming up in just a few minutes. >> all right. thank you so much, mark. well, coming up next, kids in crisis as we have been reporting suicide, it is on the rise for young americans. so what can be done? well, the superintendent of sonoma county schools joins me live to talk about meeting the mental health challenges in school and at home

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in 2016. he was just 24 years old. his santa rosa family started the zane tamplin foundation to provide support and to connect people to resources. and tomorrow night the foundation will host its annual high heels for hope event and hope it is exactly what we need, especially right now as teen suicide is on the rise. according to the centers for disease control, suicide is the second leading cause of death among young people 15 to 24 years old. joining me now live is someone who knows of the challenges facing our young people. doctor amy carter, she's superintendent of sonoma county schools. really appreciate you being here, amy. are you seeing the mental health of students growing steadily worse? >> absolutely. we've had the surgeon general tell us in recent years that this is a national health crisis, and we're seeing it in our schools.

we're definitely seeing students struggle with mental mental health, and we're seeing suicide rates despite our best efforts continue to incline. >> i know that one thing that you're doing there in sonoma county is to try to make schools a safe place for everyone. i want you to tell us a little bit more about your welcoming schools initiative. >> yeah. coming into office, we knew this was something that that we had to we had to tackle. and we looked a lot at our youth. truth data and young people were telling us that an area that we could really focus on was our school culture, making sure that our school campuses are inclusionary, that our lgbtq youth feel supported, have access to resources. so the welcoming schools initiative is a partnership with the human rights campaign foundation, and we're really working with educators to make sure that our schools have all the supports that are necessary for young people to have the mental health supports they need right now.

>> and you have another really important resource on campuses, and it's called safe school ambassadors. how do you believe that this teen led program benefits students? >> i think one of my favorite things is that it's teen led. we pulled together a team of young people, leaders who come and represent all aspects of the school culture. we have athletes. we have kids who are interested in science, kids that are interested in in the automotive program. we bring them all together and they take ownership of their school campus. we give them the skills to intervene when there's conflict, and we give them the skills to help improve their campus, to identify when students are struggling and step in and make sure that that our young people are really creating school cultures, that they want. >> yeah, i really love the idea of students helping students. doctor carter, suicide prevention is something that is really personal for you as well. you shared with me that you lost your father nelson, to suicide just two years ago. >> i did it was 67. it was a few

months before i took office here to serve sonoma county students. and for me, it really galvanized my commitment to do something about this in our schools. it's why we launched a new division focused on safety and culture and partnership. and the more that i tell my story and share my story with the community, the more people share their story with me. and increasingly, stories like zane tamblyn's and other students here in our north bay. i carry them in my heart and know that schools can be a big part of changing things for young people. >> yeah, and really providing that support. well, doctor carter, i know you're going to be joining me tomorrow night at high heels for hope. it is an inspiring story, and i hope one that will bring about some change there in sonoma county. so really appreciate it. and looking forward to talking with you in person tomorrow night. >> thanks for the support. >> and a reminder that if you know someone who is in need of help, the crisis lifeline, it is

available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. we have the number right there on your screen so you can call nine eight, eight, or you can text 741741. really appreciate that. open and honest conversation from doctor carter and excited to report that high heels for hope is sold out for tomorrow night. so really looking forward to making a big difference there in sonoma county. >> all right. coming up here on the four this afternoon, a new initiative at uc berkeley to offer students an in-depth look at palestinian and arab history. we're live this afternoon after the break with the chair of this new program to learn more about it and discuss why this move comes at a critical mome

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establishing palestine's right to independence as its own state, and it's just one aspect of palestinian and arab history. at the center of a new program of study at uc berkeley and the palestinian and arab studies program, announced this fall, offers students the opportunity to learn about palestinian and arab history, culture, politics and society, and all the ways in which they are deeply intertwined. >> for more now on the program, we are joined by usama makdisi, professor of middle eastern study there at uc berkeley and chair of this new program. thank you so much for joining us this afternoon. this is one of the nation's first. why did you decide that now was a good time to offer this program? >> well thank you. it's great to be with you. now is a great time. it's been a great time, honestly, for years and years. the idea of there's a tremendous amount of interest. there is student demand. there is a general interest in understanding more about the palestinian people, more about palestinian history, more about arab history more generally,

more about palestinian culture, society, literature. and so on and so forth. and so uc berkeley is a great place for this to, to, to anchor this kind of program. >> and you talk about there being more people interested in better understanding palestinian history, given the current events we're watching unfold in the middle east, the growing conflict in that region? what how do you feel like the courses in this program at uc berkeley can kind of put today's events into some context? >> well, precisely that it puts it into context, historical context, cultural context, social context, political context. but most of all, just to think of palestinians as people, people with history and not to think of palestinians simply as and within the prism of conflict. in other words, there were palestinians long before there was a palestinian-israeli conflict. there have been palestinians, you know, on the ground in palestine for decades and centuries. and it's just a question of thinking of them as people, like any other people

with history, with rights, with, you know, aspirations, with love, with mistakes, with foibles as people basically. and i think it's like any other people, in fact. and so i think in that sense, it's crucial to get people to understand. and students actually are demanding of us to know more about palestinians and to more know more about this, this history. >> and how do you believe that learning more about palestinian history will actually affect other fields and is related to other fields? >> well, in the sense that, you know, the more you know about any people, frankly, the more you humanize any people. and historicize any people, the more you know about yourself and the more you know about related histories of other peoples who in the past, as well as in the present, have been considered people without history, people without significant history, whether it's, you know, black americans, whether it's latinx, whether it's any people, frankly, who have been marginalized here is a chance and an opportunity for us to teach and for our students to learn about a people who have an

extraordinarily rich and deep history and so in that sense, it relates precisely, as you're saying, to, to histories of all peoples, because every people in the world deserve to be a people with a history. >> and this new program, we know is, is sort of the culmination of, of years of, of planning and of philanthropy work. can you talk a little bit about what it took to make this arab studies program a reality at uc berkeley? >> just a lot of hard work and honestly, a lot of good faith and a lot of, you know, a lot of interest on the part of the students, a lot of philanthropists and people who care about palestine and care about care about humanity, frankly. and you know, and an administration here to give administration credit at uc berkeley that was willing and open and understood the need and the demand of students to learn more about this part of the world and about the palestinians. and so just putting, you know, you know, putting in what our mission as a

university, at a public university is, in fact, to teach people about all peoples and all cultures around the world. and so i think it's been a long, long effort, long overdue, frankly. but i couldn't be more excited and more happy and, and more honored to, to be part of this program. >> professor, was there some pushback to the installation of this program? >> not to my knowledge. i mean, why would anyone be opposed to, you know, a program that teaches palestinian history any more than they should be? i mean, there's no reason to be opposed to this kind of program because in the end, it's a it's an academic program that focuses on palestinian and arab studies, you know, and there is no reason on earth why anyone should be opposed to learning more about palestinian history or culture or society or literature or humanity or dreams or aspirations, irrespective of what one thinks about the, the conflict, it's really important to understand and to center the

fact that we're talking ultimately about people. >> what what happens from here in terms of developing the curriculum for this program at ucla? >> that's a great question. and that's what we're working on no. and we just launched the program now. and so, you know, it's a lot of work. and we're going to develop. we hope a minor at some point in the near future have student facing programing, have conferences seminars workshops public facing engagements as in lectures. you know, the standard things that you would expect from an academic program at a leading university, such as uc berkeley. and so, you know, we just started the work and we couldn't be more excited to do this collaboratively. >> and as you mentioned, you are seeing that student demand, well, really appreciate what you're doing. and thanks again for taking the time to talk with us about this very important new program. thank you. >> thank you so much for having me on. >> all right. now to a story that we've been following here on ktvu, the bay area is seeing a surge of whooping cough cases

widely affecting children. public health officials in several counties now say they're seeing the highest numbers in decades, as fox's jonathan sarai reports, this is part of a nationwide trend. >> the kids are back in school and the weather is getting colder, which means it's the season for respiratory illnesses and the latest surge. we're seeing is whooping cough, a highly contagious bacterial illness that typically starts with simple, cold like symptoms but often progresses into intense coughing fits and in some cases, difficulty breathing. it's typically spread among young people and half of all babies that get whooping cough end up in the hospital. >> you may not necessarily know that you have whooping cough because it starts off like a regular old, cold, runny nose. you know, cough. >> the cdc says there have been more than 1100 confirmed cases in the u.s. so far this year. that's five times higher than the same time last year. and doctors say the numbers are expected to climb as we head into the holiday season. as more young people spend time indoors with family.

>> it happens when you have low levels of a communicable disease. is that the community's immunity is low, which can be followed then in the next year by or in a subsequent year by high levels. >> but the cdc says these numbers actually signal a return to pre-pandemic levels. and 2024 could be what they call a rebound year following lower than usual transmission during the covid outbreak. rates of vaccination against whooping cough have declined significantly since the pandemic, even though the cdc says it's the best way to protect yourself against the disease. in atlanta, jonathan serrie, fox news. >> up next here on the four this afternoon, a celebration 30 years in the making. it's a celebration. that sounds pretty good here. we're live this afternoon with the oaktown jazz workshop to talk about the decades of distinctive music

education, spearheaded by the nonprofit. and we'll talk about how they're helping to keep the history of jazz alive here in the bay area and the bay area, weather a bit of everything out there, some sunshine, some clouds, some downpours, and even some thunderstorms as well. >> as far as tomorrow, get ready for some cold air and maybe some mo shower chances nothing comes close to this place in the morning. i'm so glad i can still come here.

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sounds pretty good in east bay. organization that inspires young musicians is celebrating an important milestone this weekend. on saturday, oaktown jazz workshops will celebrate its 30th anniversary with a special show at yoshi's at jack london square. the nonprofit offers a variety of music lessons to students between the ages of ten and 18, with classes that are also available for young adults as well. for more on this weekend's celebration, we're joined here in the studio by ravi apkarian, the executive director of oaktown jazz workshops, as well as sumaya green and alumni of the program. welcome to you both. >> thank you very much. >> and first of all, congratulations on 30 years. that that is a really significant milestone. you have a special anniversary show that's going to be happening saturday at yoshi's. you are obviously going to have current

students be a part of this. they have sets. and then you're bringing back some alumni as well. what can people expect? >> yeah. so we have a group of really dedicated alumni that will be performing. and these are musicians that came through the program, and now they're instructors at the program. and so they're going to team up and put together a nice presentation. and then we have some of the young musicians, some of the musicians that i met the very first day that i was invited to come in as an instructor. erica oba and jesse levitt will be there. and so that's really exciting for me because, you know, now they're really you know, they have a erica has an album out and jesse has one soon to be released. kazem george is living in new york right now. he's doing a lot of great things. and eli hall is playing with ravi coltrane and christian chief scott. some of the greatest musicians in the bay area. so they're coming

back. and then of course, we have john santos sextet. john is one of our board members, and so he's going to bring his group in. and then our lead instructor, richard howell, will be closing out the show. >> it sounds like a fantastic show. it is. and you talk about that lineup, you get the sense that you have some incredibly accomplished alumni at the workshops here. one of them here with us, soumya. talk to me about how you came to find the program and where it has taken you now in your career. >> yeah, i started the program in about fifth grade and i started it with my two older brothers. i did it up until 10th grade, so just recently and yeah, i mean, it's been great. it's instilled a lot of confidence in me and my performing skills. i act and i do musical theater and even just my everyday life. i feel like the values that i learned there, i've been using them forever. >> you carry that with you? i do. those experiences and those lessons. and you have. there's something we may have heard your

voice here, right? right. in a movie that's pretty popular. >> yeah. you may recognize my voice. >> i'll put you on the spot here. >> oh, i don't mind. yeah. i voice brea in disney pixar's inside out two. >> that is amazing. you just told me that before we came. came out from the break. that's incredible. so you are doing wonderful things, and you feel like you owe a lot of that to the oaktown jazz workshop. >> i mean, yeah, i was practically raised there. i've spent, like, most of my life in the program along with my siblings and, you know, my little sister, she'll be joining to eventually. and i'm really appreciative of all the things that i've learned, you know, beyond jazz music. and just as a person, too, i feel like it was a safe space to explore and be myself, and they really nurtured my creativity and just my personality. so i'm appreciative. >> that's fantastic. ravi, when you hear stories like soumya's, what it must make you think back on on all of the people who've gone through the program and what they've accomplished. how much of a difference do you feel like you've made in the lives of young people in the east bay? >> well thank you. yeah, the

instructors are very dedicated. and when a student comes in their first day, you know, they're a little nervous. and, you know, they're ten, 11, 12 years old and we don't really know what they're going to do with the skills that we impart and the values that we impart. but clearly it's paying off because now 30 years, we're able to look back and they're just doing remarkable things. so it's really i'm very proud of the young musicians that have come through the program and gone on to bigger things. >> absolutely. before we wrap up here, and i appreciate you both being here, let's let everybody know about the event this weekend. what do they need to know about where it is and how to get tickets? >> so please join us. oaktown jazz workshops 30th anniversary celebration will be at yoshi's oakland 730 this saturday, november 16th. you can go to yoshi's to pick up tickets. >> that sounds fantastic. appreciate you both being here. congratulations on 30 years doing amazing work in the east bay. so my congratulations on all your accomplishments, ravi.

appreciate you being here. thank you so much, heather. we'll send it over to you. yeah. i need somaya's autograph right before you leave. >> all right. back now to bay area weather and a live look across the south bay, looking out towards milpitas, where you can see a little bit of an overcast sky there. mark is back now with a look at what we can expect for the rest of the week heading into the weekend. mark. >> yeah, heading to the weekend and a cooldown. >> going to be topping our weather headlines heather as some very cold air will bring subfreezing temperatures to portions of the bay area in terms of rainfall. really no strong storm showing up just yet as you can see here, there's the possibility of some scattered rain showers by later in the day, sunday and into sunday night, but the bulk of the action is up to our north and still a little bit of sierra snowfall as well. in fact, a winter weather advisory continues out in the west slopes of the sierra until 10:00 friday night. snowfall could be around four to possibly eight inches, but right now, just seeing some cloud cover out toward the blue canyon and truckee. here is the radar. over the past few hours.

now. today is one of those days where we had sunshine and some big cloud buildups and possibly some heavier downpours. right now, the radar imagery, you can see the bulk of the action that was up in portions of napa county. it's kind of shifted closer to fairfield, out towards solano county. as we move the maps here, you can see the history of this one cell, kind of you can see was over concord now approaching discovery bay. so moving on out to the east. so still some lingering rain showers out there. not a lot of coverage to show you in the south bay with a lot of cloud cover out there. here's a live camera looking out toward san francisco, out toward golden gate park and ocean beach, and still some clouds, some breaks in the clouds. and that will kind of be the overall weather story over the next few hours. clouds move in, clouds move out. and still the possibility of some scattered showers. you definitely need the jacket. the sweater temperatures right now in the 50s to the lower 60s and a cold start tomorrow morning. coolest locations will be in the mid 30s to the upper 30s. lots of 40s out there and saturday will be the coldest morning of the of the upcoming stretch. now offshore, if you're near the

coast today, you probably noticed a lot of white water, a lot of energy headed toward our coastline. swell has been picking up and a high surf advisory continues until through saturday morning. so a bit of a jump in the waves today and still sizable for your friday and into the first half of the weekend. also, we have a coastal flood advisory, all in response to the king tides right on through sunday. so you can see the tide predictions for the golden gate bridge here. you can see into tomorrow morning into saturday morning. this could be approaching 6.9 to 7ft. so some minor flooding near portions of the bay. here's the overall weather system. this big trough. that's some cold air settling in and a lot of instability producing some of the rain showers today. for tomorrow, this begins to move on out to the east and we'll have a sun cloud mix for your friday. there is a slight chance of a shower for tomorrow, but as i mentioned, that cold air moves in saturday morning and we have a freeze freeze warning for portions of the north bay. the coldest locations right around 30 degrees. here's the forecast model. as you can see, still a

possibility of some scattered showers for tonight. here's your friday. the bulk of the action is kind of moving on out to the east, but we still have a slight chance of a lingering shower. and then saturday there's that cold start. another system that wants to come on board. sunday. it's going to definitely bring in some cloud cover. and then the chance of some afternoon showers favoring the north bay. highs for tomorrow will be in the upper 50s to the lower 60s. look ahead. we have that very cold start saturday morning. chance of a shower later in the day. sunday and a slight chance into monday. but definitely bundle up over the next few days looking chilly. >> mark. thank you. much more news is headed your way this afternoon. but first let's check on the roads around the bay area and we take you here to the macarthur maze in emeryville. and it is not looking so great here this afternoon as the commute begins to pick up. really heavy

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been charged with insurance fraud and conspiracy. >> oh, come on now. okay. crazy. a rare sea animal nicknamed the doomsday fish has washed ashore along the california coast. they're called oarfish. and last week, one turned up on a beach in san diego county. it is the third one discovered in the area since august. the doomsday fish got its name from folklore that links the sea serpent to natural disasters. marine experts say they very little is known about them. >> this is a fish that can get up to probably about 30ft long. we think that they probably live in what's called the midwater, what we call the midwater or the mesopelagic, the twilight zone of the ocean. this is kind of an area of the open ocean from maybe 300ft down to about a thousand 1500 feet underwater. >> they're definitely unique looking. experts say this oarfish is relatively young. they plan to conduct a necropsy to try to determine just how it died. >> i just think it's unsettling that something called a doomsday fish has arrived here. i'm

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it could be key in helping doctors diagnose alzheimer's disease earlier. >> as fox's alex boyer explains, this robot is considered a real game changer when treating people with memory loss. >> you know, this one of a kind machine is really seen as a game changer to help doctors diagnose alzheimer's disease early. the robot, dubbed the unicorn, can test hundreds of blood samples at one given time, and primary care doctors can order this test without having a patient have to go see a specialist. inside this research lab at unt health science center in fort worth is a multi-million dollar robot built in partnership with hamilton robotics, known as the unicorn. >> so we're transferring the beads. >> this one of a kind machine can help primary care physicians achieve an important goal when treating patients with memory loss. it can help save them time. >> so i watched her just

deteriorate. >> doctor sid o'bryant is talking about his late grandmother. it took more than a year for her to be diagnosed with alzheimer's disease. back in 1998. >> it's incredibly difficult at this point because referral to specialty clinics. brain scans. cognitive assessments. >> o'bryant calls the robot a game changer. >> the field has been trying to find ways to help get an earlier and accurate diagnosis of alzheimer's disease. >> that's where the unicorn comes in. without a patient having to wait to see a specialist, it can run approximately 3.9 million tests per year on a specific blood sample versus manually running about 486,000 per year. >> if you think about it, what the lab could do in a given week this system can do in one day or two. >> and david ulevitch spent four years developing the multi-million dollar machine and make sure that it's very, very spot on with the transfers. the

unicorn's ability to process data quickly and efficiently allows for a larger number of participants to be studied, including underrepresented groups like mexican americans who have a higher risk of alzheimer's disease, which really provides access to the community to be able to come get this test and get results very quickly. an option doctor bryant wishes his grandmother had. >> as a field, we failed her, plain and simple. we failed her. i failed her, and i just i'm fed up with it. i don't think we can keep failing our communities. >> and the unicorn just went online in august, so of course it's still very new. unt health science center tells me that it's working with insurance companies to try to help minimize the cost of that test in the future. it's something to ask your doctor about. those details are still being worked out at this point. >> next at five, alameda county district attorney pamela price breaks her silence after residents vote to remove her from office. how she plans to

move forward on some high profile criminal cases. plus, this inquiry was politically motivated and one sided. >> it was filled with lies. >> the scandals plaguing the san mateo county sheriff's office supervisors now seeking the top cop's removal for allegedly hiring her lover. >> and it is a san francisco classic. but it could be fading into the sunset. how a big budget deficit. what it could mean for the end of the cable car. >> ktvu fox two news at five starts now. >> and good evening, everyone. >> i'm mike mibach and i'm cristina rendon. we begin with alameda county district attorney pamela price holding her first news conference since what appears to be a successful recall effort to remove her from office. >> price spoke about her office's recent cases, charging seven sheriff's deputies and two former deputies in the death of maurice monk. new at five. >> ktvu jana katsuyama joins us in studio with a look at what is ahead. jana. >> well, the alameda county registrar plans to release election results tomorrow. so far, nearly