Friday Morning News Roundup

Warmer temperatures that began Thursday are expected to persist through next week for the region, according to the National Weather Service.

The heat advisory on Friday is for interior parts of the North Bay, East Bay, and South Bay, as well as interior areas of Monterey and San Benito counties.

For the affected areas, daytime temperatures will be in the upper 90s and lower 100s. Far inland locations may reach 110 degrees, according to the weather service.

An air quality advisory was also issued for Friday, when smoke from wildfires burning across Northern California is expected to linger across the region.

Hazy skies and the smell of smoke is possible in portions of the Bay Area, especially at higher altitudes and in the North Bay, according the Bay Area Air Quality Management District.

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Crews with the U.S. Coast Guard and San Francisco Fire Department rescued a man Thursday who had jumped over the side of the Bay Bridge after allegedly crashing his car and fleeing on foot.

The Coast Guard got a call from California Highway Patrol at 2:26 p.m. about a person in the water on the south side of the bridge near the toll plaza, according to Operations Specialist First Class Daniel Kendall.

According to CHP, there was a traffic accident and a vehicle rolled over. The man fled on foot and jumped off the side of the bridge where the fall wasn't very perilous.

The Coast Guard carried out the search and rescue and retrieved a man who said he might have some broken bones, Kendall said. Custody was transferred over to San Francisco Fire, which took the man to Yerba Buena Island where an ambulance was waiting, a spokesperson for San Francisco fire said.

As for why the man ran and jumped, investigators are still looking into it and do not believe he was being pursued by police.

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Police arrested a 24-year-old man suspected of trying to abduct a student from a high school classroom in Redwood City on Thursday afternoon.

The suspect, Trey Duus, entered a classroom at Sequoia High School about 2 p.m., allegedly grabbed a male student and tried to pull him out of the room, Redwood City police said.

A teacher intervened, causing the suspect to flee. Duus reportedly told staff that he had a gun and not to touch him as he fled.

When police responded, the school at 1201 Brewster Ave. was put on lockdown while officers searched for the suspect. They found him as he was leaving a school building on the west side of the campus.

The suspect resisted when officers tried to detain him and they used unspecified less-lethal force options to subdue him.

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A crowd of residents from San Francisco's west side neighborhoods gathered Thursday at Ocean Beach to protest the city's proposal to shut down a section of the Great Highway to cars and transform it into an oceanfront park.

The group named Open the Great Highway Alliance criticized Supervisor Joel Engardio, who represents the Sunset District and other west side neighborhoods, for co-sponsoring the plan without thoroughly consulting with his district.

"Listen to your constituents," a protester shouted. "Joel is a liar," another person yelled.

The Great Highway, a roadway connecting Skyline Boulevard to the city's Richmond District along Ocean Beach, has been closed to cars in certain portions for several years due to coastal erosion.

Upper Great Highway, the section from Sloat Boulevard to Lincoln Way, has been temporarily closed to cars on Friday afternoons and weekends for four years as part of a pilot program to turn the area into an open space park. Now seven supervisors support ending the pilot and permanently closing it to build the Great Highway Park.

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Sonoma County park rangers will no longer be designated peace officers after a change approved by the county board of supervisors this week that will reclassify them as public officers starting in August.

Primary law enforcement duties in parks will be performed by a new team from the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office. Sheriff's deputies and local police already make arrests in the county's parks, according to Regional Parks Department Director Bert Whitaker, who said there have been zero arrests made by park rangers within the last decade that involved a cuffing, detention, and jail booking.

The biggest changes will be the loss of rangers' batons, pepper spray and handcuffs, along with a loss of arrest powers, and potentially losing lights and sirens atop emergency vehicles.

Whitaker said before the ordinance's first passage in May that the change was motivated by the desire to more closely align the policies governing the rangers with their mission, which he said was broader than primarily being law enforcement.

The 4-0 vote, with Supervisor James Gore absent, came despite impassioned pushback from rangers who called the move a "slap in the face." More than two dozen people spoke against the change at the board of supervisors' regular meeting Tuesday, most of them active rangers and some who said they had left recently because of dissatisfaction with the direction the department was moving.

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A San Jose man and two suspects from Central California were arrested this week in connection with the shooting death of a man at an apartment in South San Jose earlier this year, police said Thursday.

The shooting, reported about 2:45 p.m. on May 26, left a man dead at a unit at the Blossom River Apartments complex, 1000 Blossom River Way. The victim's name was not released.

San Jose police said Isaac Noa, 24, and Jason Vaavaai, 25, were arrested Tuesday in Los Banos, while a third suspect, Nuuvali Lafo, 19, was arrested in San Jose.

All three were booked into the Santa Clara County Main Jail on suspicion of homicide, where jail records show they are being held without bail.

They were scheduled to be arraigned on Thursday in Santa Clara County Superior Court, with plea hearings set for next month.

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The Oakland Alameda Water Shuttle was suspended for the remainder of Thursday due to mechanical issues that occurred just hours after its launch the day before.

Repairs on the vessel are complete, according to San Francisco Bay Ferry spokesperson Thomas Hall, and crews may perform test runs without passengers Thursday evening.

The free shuttle, which can transport up to 31 passengers and 14 bikes across the Oakland Estuary, began service to much fanfare Wednesday morning before being shut down for mechanical issues around 6 p.m. that day.

The two-year pilot program aims to assess demand for a more permanent pedestrian option to cross the estuary from Oakland to Alameda. Dozens of passengers filled the vessel to capacity Wednesday morning to be the first aboard the boat, which is affectionately named Woodstock after the historic neighborhood in Alameda.

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A Vallejo man on Thursday pleaded guilty to assaulting federal officers with a deadly weapon, U.S. Attorney Phillip Talbert announced.

Sean Delapp, 37, assaulted two FBI agents in August 2023 by chasing them with his car, pulling up alongside them, and aiming a gun at them through his window while "making a recoil motion with the firearm," prosecutors said.

A search warrant at Delapp's residence uncovered a Glock 29 pistol, ammunition and various firearm parts. As a felon, Delapp is prohibited from having any of these items.

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A husband and wife were robbed of their puppy at gunpoint Wednesday night in San Jose, police said.

At approximately 8 p.m., officers responded to a report of an armed robbery. The male suspect allegedly took the couple's 4-month-old Shih Tzu puppy.

Police said the puppy was a gift from the husband after his wife suffered a traumatic incident. Officers identified the suspect vehicle and spotted it in the immediate area. Police pulled the car over and the victims identified a man inside as the suspect.

Officers located a firearm and two loaded magazines in the vehicle. Police found the stolen pooch at the suspect's residence, along with two AR-style rifles.

The puppy was found safe and reunited with his owners.

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An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.4 shook an area northeast of Morgan Hill in Santa Clara County on Thursday evening, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The quake struck about 6 p.m. in a remote area east of Mount Hamilton near Highway 130. No damage has been reported.

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An Alameda County man was given three years in federal prison for selling counterfeit machine parts to the U.S. Department of Defense, federal prosecutors said Thursday.

Steve Kim, 63, controlled a company that sold fan assemblies to the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency, which supplies the nation's military. Kim sold either counterfeit or surplus fan assemblies that he claimed were new, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California.

To trick the government, Kim created fake labels, some of which used another company's trademark, which he attached to the products he sold. When questioned about these fan assemblies, Kim hid his scheme by providing fake tracing documents that he made himself and signed using a false identity.

Some of these counterfeit fans were installed or intended to be installed with electrical components on a nuclear submarine, a laser system on an aircraft, and a surface-to-air missile system, prosecutors said.

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Crews contained a two-alarm residential fire in Vallejo early Friday morning, according to fire officials.

Shortly before 1 a.m., Vallejo firefighters said on social media they contained a two-alarm blaze at an apartment complex in the 2600 block of Springs Road.

Due to the fire, crews had to close Springs Road in both directions between Avian and Rollingwood drives.

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Oakland officials said the global tech outage reported early Friday morning has affected systems in the city.

"The City of Oakland is aware of a cybersecurity outage affecting jurisdictions worldwide. The impacts in Oakland have caused many computers to become inaccessible and are being evaluated and responded to now," the city's Public Information Office said in a statement.

City officials assured residents could still call 911 for emergencies.

Media outlets and cyber users worldwide have reported outages with systems linked to Microsoft and cybersecurity giant Crowdstrike.

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