These are the local news from March 4 to 10 that you need to know to stay up to date.
The Bay Area continues to be affected by a new storm that will undoubtedly leave a lot of water in its path, causing fallen trees, power outages, landslides and flooding, so the state of California activated a State of Emergency in 21 counties to help them to face the effects of these torrential rains, in addition to the 13 already declared.
The authorities have called not to leave the house if it is not necessary and to stay alert and informed, among other recommendations that will keep you and your family safe. You can consult these recommendations in our notes on the subject.
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researchers from STanford Medicine have succeeded in transforming cancer cells into immune cells, which are capable of teaching the body's immune system to fight the same cancer from which the cells came and attack them.
"This approach could open up a whole new therapeutic pathway to treat cancer," said Dr. Ravi Majeti, Professor of Hematology and lead author of the study published March 1 in Cancer Discovery.
Some of the most promising cancer treatments use the patient's own immune system to attack the disease, often by slowing down immune responses to cancer or by teaching the immune system to recognize and attack cancer more vigorously.
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A canvas of light descends on Sunday after illuminating the western span of the Bay Bridge for 10 years. But with enough donors, it will return "in a most glorious manifestation," founder Ben Davis said Friday.
The Bay Lights have been shining brightly across the Bay Area for many to see despite 24/7 exposure to sand, dirt and vibration. week for the last decade.
Now is the time to decommission them as they are failing faster than they can be repaired cost effectively.
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San Mateo County Sheriff's Office detectives arrested a man suspected of sexually assaulting an 8-year-old boy for eight years while calling himself a family friend.
On June 26, 2022, detectives began investigating the case involving a child who was sexually assaulted over a span of eight years by a family friend. The suspect was identified as Alan Frank Russell of Woodside, California.
Thus, on March 2, detectives obtained a $200,000 arrest warrant for Russell for lewd or lewd acts with a child under 14 years of age. Shortly after the warrant was issued, Russell was arrested by officers and detectives without incident.
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Tears fell from the eyes of the mother of a detained immigrant who has been on a hunger strike for 14 days.
Eighty-four detained immigrants, including four from Santa Clara County, continue their hunger strike to protest abhorrent treatment at the Mesa Verde Immigration and Customs Enforcement Processing Center in Bakersfield and the Golden State Annex in McFarland. Nearly two dozen advocates supporting the detainees protested outside the San Jose district office of Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren on Friday.
The hunger strike comes on the heels of a 10-month labor strike by the detainees who are paid $1 a day to work at the facility. The strikers want better living conditions and fair wages, the release of detainees and the closure of detention centers.
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Police arrested a man Friday morning on multiple charges, including a hate crime in Palo Alto, after two separate incidents in which he approached men sitting in their cars and committed crimes against them, where no one was found physically injured.
And, on Friday, March 3, at around 9:29 a.m., the Palo Alto Police Department call center received a call reporting a man brandishing a knife near the 200 block of University Avenue.
The victim, a man in his forties originally from Azerbaijan, also reported that the suspect had told him: "Go back to your country," according to a statement from the authorities.
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The East Palo Alto Police Department reported that during February 2023 there was a 61.82 percent reduction in shootings in East Palo Alto compared to the same period, but in 2022, according to its Shotspotter report.
They also highlighted that this decrease follows that registered in February 2022 compared to that of 2021, since a reduction of 23.61 percent was registered.
Said decrease, the authorities indicated, responds to a joint effort between the forces of public order and those of the community, who have provided information and evidence to eliminate illegal firearms in the city and thus help hold people accountable for the crime. misuse of them.
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Casa Circulo Cultural and Yerba Buena Cultural Center for the Art, held the meeting of local artists "Represent-Art", which showed how diverse, complex and wonderful the Bay Area is in terms of art, where men and women of different ages showed their abilities.
The event called Represent-Art ?Represent-Arte in Spanish? It was held at the Casa CÃrculo Cultural facilities, in the heart of Redwood City, a space that received artists who requested to participate in this unique meeting that embraced art as its pillar.
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Heavy rains and winds are expected to hit San Mateo County beginning at noon Thursday and continuing through at least Friday night, posing the threat of flooding, mudslides, and falling trees and branches over the weekend.
The San Mateo County Department of Emergency Management has advised residents to prepare for severe weather, sign up for emergency alerts, monitor weather forecasts, and avoid driving during heavy rain.
"The soils are already saturated from the rains we had in January and February and now we're going to put more water on top of that," said Brian Garcia of the National Weather Service. "The soils are already oozing water, so that will cause flooding and/or mudslides."
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With a series of storms forecast to continue through mid-March, including a river weather event later this week, Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday proclaimed a state of emergency to support storm response and relief efforts in 21 additional counties.
Among the counties that were proclaimed with a State of Emergency are Butte, El Dorado, Fresno, Humboldt, Imperial, Inyo, Lake, Mendocino, Merced, Monterey, Napa, Placer, Plumas, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Stanislaus, Tuolumne and Yuba.
Last week, the Governor declared a state of emergency in 13 counties due to the storms and activated the California Guard and State Operations Center to provide state support for county-led emergency response efforts and coordinate mutual aid. from neighboring jurisdictions.
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After the precipitous fall of the Silicon Valley Bank This morning, when its shares plummeted more than 60 percent before market operations, the state of California, through the US Department of Innovation and Financial Protection, ordered the end of operations of the financial institution, while guaranteeing that the savings will be available on Monday, March 13.
The announcement has caused the financial sector to worry, as Silicon Valley Bank ?SVB? specialized in the technology sector with businesses that were primarily supplied by funds that invest in unlisted companies.
It should be noted that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation guaranteed that the savings will be available "no later than this Monday morning", words with which it called for the calm of the clients.
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Officials of the San Mateo Police Department ?SMPD, for its acronym in English? A man was arrested on a vehicle theft report in San Mateo this Wednesday afternoon.
At approximately 5:30 p.m., SMPD officers were notified of a stolen vehicle near Hillsdale Boulevard and Saratoga Drive, who mobilized to locate the car.
An SMPD officer found the vehicle behind a building located in the 2600 block of El Camino Real. Once reinforcements arrived a traffic stop was made to the stolen vehicle and the driver, later identified as Tenzin Rinchen, was ordered to exit the vehicle.
Rinchen got out of the vehicle and was safely detained by officers.
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