Children under age 5 could become eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine as soon as this weekend, after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave its approval Friday for the age group.

The FDA announced that it would amend its emergency use authorization for the vaccines developed by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech, making both of them available to children as young as 6 months old.

This weekend, officials with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are expected to consider whether to authorize the shots for the country's youngest children.

If approved, toddlers and young children could begin receiving COVID vaccine doses by Monday or Tuesday.

A Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority employee was arrested Friday morning on suspicion of making a criminal threat of gun violence while other employees were at a bus yard in San Jose, according to the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office.

The name of the man arrested was not immediately released following the arrest for threats made at the Chaboya Division Yard on South Seventh Street.

Deputies responded at 7:50 a.m. Friday and contacted the person who reported the threats, then arrested the employee and booked him into Santa Clara County Jail on suspicion of making criminal threats.

The case comes after last year's mass shooting at another VTA maintenance yard that killed nine VTA workers.

The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office is asking anyone with information on the case to call (408) 808-4500, or an anonymous tip line at (408) 808-4431.

Napa police reported early Saturday that the caretaker of a non-verbal woman found at a hotel has been located.

No further details were provided in a brief news release issued by police at 1:47 a.m. Police added on social media a thank you to the community, announcing that the family had been safely reunited.

The non-verbal woman had been found about 9 p.m. Friday at the Cambria Hotel on Soscol Avenue.

Volunteers in San Francisco are being sought to help create new heat maps of the urban landscape by attaching sensors to their vehicles.

The city is one of 14 that were selected for the Urban Heat Watch project, which aims to better understand the relationship between climate change, extreme temperatures, public health and the built environment, according to the city administrator's office.

The project is sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and will allow the city to measure how temperatures vary by neighborhood in an effort to address health inequalities related to extreme heat.

About 50 volunteers are being recruited to attach sensors to their vehicles and drive along pre-determined routes in the city. The sensors will record temperature and humidity data that will help design urban heat island maps. Interested volunteers can sign up at sfclimatehealth.org/heatwatch

The Oakland Police Department plans to add additional resources this weekend for potential sideshow activity in the city, according to a police spokesperson.

Additional police patrols will canvas the city to enforce any sideshow activity, which is illegal.

Officers will take action by issuing citations, making arrests and towing vehicles.

The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Friday to adopt a new budget for the 2022-23 fiscal year that includes a 7 percent increase from the previous year's budget that includes $2.6 billion in total expenditures.

The adopted budget is largely consistent with the 2011-22 fiscal year budget, and avoids any reductions to core county services, according to a county spokesperson Friday. The new fiscal year begins July 1.

County staffing will increase by 2.8 percent.

As part of Sonoma County's commitment to transparency, open government, and citizen engagement, an online view of the county's annual operating budget is available here:

https://sonomacounty.budget.socrata.com/.

Officials at San Francisco International Airport said Friday evening that a suspect has been apprehended after attempting to injure several people in the airport's international terminal.

Three people have been treated for minor abrasions, an airport spokesperson said late Friday evening.

The incident occurred in the pre-security area of the international terminal.

A felony hit-and-run DUI arrest has led to the seizure of of multiple weapons in Petaluma, authorities said Friday.

Evan Weise, 22, of Cotati, was arrested on suspicion of felony hit-and-run driving under the influence on June 11 after police allege he struck a pedestrian and several vehicles on Kentucky Street. Weise is also suspected of assaulting a police officer and an employee of a downtown restaurant.

On Wednesday, police obtained a search warrant for Weise's residence on 7th Street in Petaluma and allege they found an unserialized AR-15 assault rifle with a 200-round drum magazine, a 12-gauge shotgun, ammunition, a sword, and several other high-capacity magazines. A concealed handgun was also allegedly found in his vehicle.

A 44-year-old man was arrested this week for peeping with a video camera at a high school graduation party in Petaluma after a small camera was found discreetly hidden in a cat litter box in a bathroom.

A resident was hosting the graduation party Tuesday night at their home for their 17-year-old student. During the party, the camera was discovered positioned and hidden in a cat litter box in one of the residence's bathrooms. A police spokesperson said the camera had been recording for approximately 30 minutes prior to it being discovered, but no one at the party admitted to owning the camera.

Police seized the camera for their investigation and on Wednesday watched the video that had been recorded, observing the suspect recording himself as he placed the camera into the litter box.

The investigation revealed that the suspect in the video, who attended the party, is the ex-husband of the resident who hosted the event.

Charles G. Korrell, of Ross, was arrested Thursday morning in Corte Madera. Detectives also obtained a search warrant of his residence in Ross and seized potential electronic evidence that will have to be processed and examined further.

The National Weather Service forecast for Saturday for the greater San Francisco Bay Area calls for clear, sunny skies with daytime highs still on the cool side but trending slightly warmer as compared with Friday's temperatures. Highs will be in the 60s along the coast to the upper 70s inland. Overnight lows Saturday morning will range from the upper 40s to the upper 50s.

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