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Parents packed a Mount Diablo Unified School District board meeting Tuesday night, urging trustees to pause plans to phase out a two-way Spanish immersion program at Bancroft Elementary School. Families presented the board with a petition signed by roughly 300 people asking district leaders to reconsider the decision. Parents said they were blindsided by the announcement.

The Bay Area started to dry out Wednesday night, after a couple days of rainy weather that left behind flooding in some spots. In Oakland, people are fed up over one stretch of freeway that seems to flood every time a decent amount of rain moves through. 

Parents packed a Mount Diablo Unified School District board meeting Tuesday night, urging trustees to pause plans to phase out a two-way Spanish immersion program at Bancroft Elementary School. Families presented the board with a petition signed by roughly 300 people asking district leaders to reconsider the decision. Parents said they were blindsided by the announcement.

Protesters confronted the Sonoma County sheriff at a meet-and-greet event on Wednesday. They demand he stop opposing a non-collaboration with ICE ordinance that passed.

Actor James Van Der Beek died after a long battle with colorectal cancer. He was 48-years old. He was best known for the main character's role in the TV series Dawson's Creek. 

The rain will be moving out of the Bay Area Thursday.  We are expecting partly sunny skies.  Highs should range from the upper 50s to the low 60s. The weekend starts off dry.  Our next storm will boost rain chances by Sunday.  Moderate to heavy rain will highlight our forecast early next week.

Investigators have reportedly found a black glove near Nancy Guthrie's home in Tuscon, Arizona. The news comes less than a day after the release of security footage showing a masked person wearing dark gloves at Guthrie's front door. Also, the man who was wrongly detained in the search for the mother of NBC reporter Savannah Guthrie speaks out about his experience.

Amen-Ra A turned her passion as a basketball player in Mexico into an Oakland-based league where young women who dream of scoring it big in the WNBA can begin, improve and thrive.

Attorney General Pam Bondi testified before House lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Wednesday in a fiery hearing over the release of the Epstein Files. 

SFUSD Director of Communications Laura Dudnick spoke at a press conference on Wednesday afternoon to share updates on the negotiations with the United Educators of San Francisco. Negotiations are set to continue on Thursday, the fourth day of the strike, while teachers continue to march at Mission Dolores Park.

Parent of a special education student says she wasn't able to access her son's medication during the SFUSD teachers strike, because no one would cross the picket line to retrieve them for her until Wednesday. She's speaking out because she says special education students are struggling.

Anthony Anderson, 40, known as 'Anthony Ant,' was a talented trumpeter who hosted a weekly "funk glory jam" every week at the Starry Plough pub in Berkeley. He was shot and killed by deputies near his home in the hills above San Leandro.

The wet weather system will leave the Bay Area overnight before returning Sunday.

The Trump administration has taken down the Pride flag from the Stonewall National Monument in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. A memo from the National Park Service says the agency doesn't allow flags other than the U.S. flag or Interior Department flags. Suzanne Ford, executive director of San Francisco Pride joins to talk about what this means for LGBTQ history.