the weekend culture from the east bay did not mess up the st. patrick's day festivities, in dublin. we will take you there. >> the news at 6:00 starts now,

thank you for joining us. >> getting right to those other stores in a minute. starting with breaking news out of san francisco where the has been a deadly crash in the city. >> we have been at the scene for the last few hours, she is joining us live with the latest developments. >> reporter: one of the really difficult the process details about the crash is that of the two people who died today, one of them is a child. the san francisco mayor came out here to the scene. she posted on social media noting that the scene was heartbreaking to look at and so many people who we saw here today felt the same way. we have seen people dropping to their knees offering prayers for the victims. people were totally distraught and torn up. behind us, where we are standing, the wreckage is remaining from the car that crashed with debris scattered all over the street.

this was around 12:15 this afternoon. at ulloa street and west portal avenue at the bus stop. a car was headed eastbound on ulloa and ran into the bus stop, four people were hit by the car, two people died at the scene. as of now we don't know how old the child was more that child's relationship to the other person who died. paramedics took three other people to the hospital, including the driver and the fire department has said they will be running blood testing on the driver, but they don't know what led up to the crash. they are still investigating. as you can see behind us, the wreckage of the car is still there and officials are working to get it moved out of the street, but this intersection has been blocked off for the whole day. initially train rails are being rerouted and so are people

traveling in and out of the area trying to get around and figure out where to get the next bus to get home. police are encouraging people to stay out of this area at ulloa street and west portal avenue. live from san francisco, nbc bay area news. >> a lot of hard news to process, thank you. we mentioned in that post on social media about the mayor who says it is heartbreaking and the city will share more information i can. for now they're focusing on the victims and their families. we will follow the latest and bring them to you on air and online at nbcbayarea.com. you can download the free nbc bay area news news app to get alerts sent to your phone. more on the gun battle between suspects and police in the north bay. around 9:30 officers tried to pull over a driver when someone in the car fired a gun. police then returned fire.

police closed all lanes of 780 between columbus parkway and southampton. no one was hurt in the exchange. officers arrested two people and all lanes of the freeway reopened around 5:00 this morning. they are counting the votes from super tuesday but we have an update on one of the coast this race is in the senate, the runoff on the peninsula. look at the latest. the result of the race is for second place to see who will advance to the general election and you can see how close the race is. percentagewise they are the same, but this week santa clara county supervisor being passed up, but then he took back the lead. it is razor thin, he is up by 44 votes, the former san jose mayor has been the front-runner since election day with less than 1900 ballots left account and if possible one of the candidates may ask for a recount.

a stretch of 680 shut down for the weekend and if you have not run into it, look at the map. this part of 680 is closed until monday morning and shows you e closures and ways around it. if you need to drive in the tri- valley, get around the closure by taking eastbound 580 out to highway 84, the green down there or take westbound 580 to get to 880. south from contra costa you can take highway 24 to 0 to 880 and you can take i-80 to 882 avoid the cultural together. this happens the same weekend as the st. patrick's day celebration in dublin. now, we are showing you how the detours did not stop people from celebrating the luck of the irish. >> people grabbed a spot and put on green gear ready for the st. patrick's day parade. >> it is a sense of community.

we come and watch every year. it is good to see these people. >> it is a great showing of the community. i was out of town yesterday and i told everybody to come down to dublin. it's the place to be. >> the weekend festival that was also the place to be at civic center, this year the city marks its 40th st. patrick's day celebration. >> it is always really fun. >> just beyond dublin, southbound 680 is closed in pleasanton between the 580 >> it is always really fun. >> just beyond dublin, southbound 680 is closed in pleasanton between the five 8680 connector to highway 84 for some long planned roadwork. crews are repaving the roads. dublin city leaders say that planning for the celebration included planning around the closure. they are confident that it will not affect the 80,000 visitors. freeways may be impacted, but all access roads to dublin will be open on 580 and 680, northbound 680 is open along

with all entrances to dublin. >> people say the st. patrick's day celebration is something they always do. the security closure did not get in the way. >> that was right before 80 where there was more traffic. >> this was 680 southbound by the afternoon ahead of the detour, but people in dublin say that their experience was just what they hoped for. >> we were pretty sure it will not impact us. >> it is a bay area tradition, the 173rd annual st. patrick's day celebration in san francisco just wrapping up with festive it is kicking off with a parade on market street. it ended a couple hours later at the civic center. the theme is unite sf. organizers want to share st. patrick's day with everyone and honor all unique cultural groups. each year organizers vote for the honorary grand marshal and this year it was michael

murphy. murphy died last summer but was well known in the irish community. best known for baking irish soda bread every year. his daughter was there today honoring her late father. >> family and close friends have united. over 100 of us. we are going to march in my dads honor. >> the festivities pick up tomorrow with a block party at the united irish cultural center. a beautiful day in san francisco for their parade and in dublin for their parade, it was a beautiful day everywhere for it whatever you wanted to do. >> yes it was. temperatures, low 70s remaining, but as the breeze comes in we will cool things down. the sun is setting over downtown san jose where we breached 73 degrees today. coastal fog returns through areas like sfo and if you have plans tonight, make sure to grab a jacket because we return to the summerlike pattern where we have a beautiful day and

then fog returns. patchy through tonight in oakland with the dense fog in the santa clara valley going into sunday morning. as we talk about the rest of sunday, we will clear out into the afternoon and see temperatures back to the 70s. i will be back with the full forecast. a lot of events going on and we have to talk about when the rain returns. i will be back with that in a little bit. when we come back, what is elon musk up to now? working on a spy project for the u.s. government. a developing situation after a large whale washed up after a large whale washed up on a be

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murders he fled in a stolen car to a home in trenton, new jersey where he barricaded himself inside. he was eventually arrested without further incident. a runway crash in sacramento hurting two officers with dash cam from a passing car catching it on video. the car slamming head on into the patrol car in davis wednesday on the shoulder of i- 80. officers were in a patrol car with seatbelts on, the driver intentionally swerved, drove against traffic and slammed into the patrol car. the officers were taken to the hospital. no word on how they are doing. police arrested a driver after a crash in san jose. this just after 11:00 last night southbound 280. a call about the crash on the byrd avenue ramp, a man walked onto the highway and was hit by a car. the man died.

police arrested the driver of suspicion of driving under the influence. spacex is building a network of spy satellites for a u.s. intelligence agency. that's my sources say to reuters, the network of hundreds of satellites being built by the star shield under a 1.8 by the star shield under a $1.8 billion contract. sources say the contract is with the national reconnaissance office. which manages spy satellites, they say if successful the program would significantly help the consumer and government spot targets anywhere on the globe. this is elon musk has gained a reputation for clashing with the biden administration. if you're feeling lucky, there are two massive lottery jackpots up for grabs. no one matched last night so the mega millions is now $875 million. the next drawing is tuesday night, but it is not the only

skyhigh jackpot, the powerball was $600 million in that drawing at 8:00 tonight. you can buy tickets until 7:00. a little more than 45 minutes with the odds of winning either jackpot it is slim. >> we know that but we still play. thousand will lace up running shoes for the oaken marathon, but today the kids had a chance to race. we were there for the fun run today, about 1000 children at the starting line near lake merritt. in partnership with the eat, learn, pray foundation. kids race between 1/4 mile and one mile depending on the age. this is for all students in the oakland school district, they got to race for free. parents say it is a great way to get the kids outside and engage with the community. >> that way, the kids have time

with the community. sometimes it is unsafe and this is a nice way to see the natural beautiful lake we have. enjoy this time. >> the oaken marathon and half marathon kicks off tomorrow morning at 7:00. the 5k and 10k race shortly will start after, if you want to participate you can register online. 70 degrees today, 7:00 tomorrow morning in oakland, getting chilly. >> it is a little chilly, you need the layer and then you get going and it's like get off of me. we will be in for a nice day. running the marathon or kicking back and relaxing for sunday. second half of the weekend. we are watching out for patchy fog for the overnight hours. it is typical in the bay area as we get into spring and summer to get coastal fog returning and calling things down with a onshore breeze. for the temperature tomorrow,

after we get out of the fog we are in the 70s for the inland valleys with upper 60s, nice near the coastline. sunny in the sierra so pack the sunscreen. there are no alerts to know about, it is a good travel weekend tomorrow and monday. changes are coming into later next week. now to the microclimate to see how temperatures are going as we prepare for sunday. changes through this evening, we are going down to the upper 50s, lower 60s in san jose so grab a jacket and then be careful for changes in visibility. 40s and 50s and then into the middle of the day, a lot of the yellow and green, not only for st. patrick's day, but with a few more mild temperatures coming. brentwood tomorrow 73, 10 degrees cooler in the city and 72 as you make your way into santa rosa. looking at the next second day

of the st. patrick's day celebration. if you did not catch it today, you can catch it tomorrow. for the parade and celebrations, bring sunglasses, short sleeve shirt, temperatures will be in the 70s as we go into the afternoon. looking into next week, we officially start spring on tuesday and in san jose over the next couple of days so we will start the work week nice and mild in the mid-70s. continuing with a trend of clear skies into the middle part of the week and then we are starting to cool down as we go into friday and saturday. we are hinting at the return of rain fall. it really will not come into the picture until at least friday night when we see this system develop and it is still putting itself together. the details on how much we will get, who will get the most and where this will arrive first. still working out, but we see this coming back into friday

evening for the commute, continuing with us on saturday. making plans into next weekend, you want to stay put to the forecast to see if we have to bring plans inside. we will also see the return of sierra snowfall of one two feet right now, that's what the models are showing me and it could bring about winter weather advisory's, so be careful driving there. getting through the breezy conditions with the ridges. as we learn more on those details, i will be sure to keep you updated to what's going on. nice for st. patrick's day, nice to start the work week. really hard to go to work monday with those beautiful temperatures and officially spring on tuesday. >> you offered to take care of next week. that is very nice of you. focus on enjoying this week. >> in terms of the rain, we have so much now we are probably out

of the drought? >> definitely. the snowpack is looking good so this is just beneficial rain to ramp up the green. >> thank you very much. your next trip to target could lo dierent. why you might have to skip self checkout tomorrow. a quick reminder, you can now access nbc bay area news now access nbc bay area news whenev you want, we er

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checkout at target, starting tomorrow most stores will limit self checkout to customers with 10 items or fewer and self checkout lanes may close down completely when foot traffic is slow. self checkout is meant for customers making quick trips. walmart will be adding limits to some of its stores. this comes as retailers claim theft is becoming a major problem. most drivers still don't trust self driving cars, but they do want their features. aaa surveyed american drivers online about their attitudes toward anonymous cars and found 2/3 of americans do not trust them. 1/4 say they are unsure, and 2/3 says they are interested in self driving features which includes automated emergency braking and lane keeping assistance. >> it is important for automakers to take away the idea that there is demand for the systems they are building today and the best way to get to the fully automated future, if that's where we want to go

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job, dying the river green this morning. the tradition marking its 69th year. >> in new york the fifth avenue turn green with large crowds turning out for the st. patrick's day parade, the largest celebration of irish heritage in the world. going on for 262 years. not to be left out in tampa, florida the hillsborough river, as you can see also turn green. part of the river of green festival kicking off today. the city says the green coloring is non-toxic, biodegradable and safe for the environment. >> very confusing for the fish. >> it is indeed and for the humans sometimes. >> we talked about a spectacular day tomorrow or

today, more of the same tomorrow. >> a repeat tomorrow and monday with spring starting tuesday, then we see unsettled weather. >> thank you, we will be back at it at 11:00. janelle wang: this is an nbc bay area news special. we investigate: a fleet of retired cars bought with nbc bay area news special. we investigate. a fleet of retired cars bought with taxpayer money finally being moved to get auctioned off after sitting in a south bay parking lot for four years. >> people have to hear about this organization. it is stunning. hundreds of female prison guards sues the state over how they were treated after they became pregnant. >> there is no accommodation. there was no putting you anywhere. >> reporter: san francisco's millennium tower is now shored up and shouldn't lean any further to one side. but new tests show it might be sinking somewhere else