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corner of california to act. >>it's time to >>take >>retreat. time to take back the >>sidewalk. the plan he's telling cities to follow in an attempt to solve the homelessness crisis. plus. >>permanent encampments are very corrosive. >>the bay area city that could start arresting people who refuse help. and mother is making a plea to san francisco's mayor to change a policy that could put them and their kids on the streets.
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then >>i literally haven't had. >>deputies in a standoff with two suspects barely old enough to read how they kept the situation from turning deadly. and a north bay bandit takes a unique approach to hide their identity. >>hello, i'm sara donchey. california is certainly no stranger to dealing with homelessness. and now governor newsom wants to crack down on people who camp out on the streets. he's calling on cities and counties to do more. unveiling a blueprint encampment plan that they can enforce. cities in the bay area are already finding their own ways to deal with it, like san jose, where the mayor has considered arresting people who refuse shelter again and again. but our john ramos heard from an advocate who says this aggressive approach won't work. >>the help comes in the form of
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a sample ordinance, offered as a template for cities to adopt to deal with encampments. it spells out the problems from public safety issues to health dangers to blight, and concludes with, quote, large encampments and those with semi-permanent structures exacerbate and perpetuate these harms. every local government must have a plan to address them. end quote. that seems to be the point of the order to get every city on board with the effort. >>we have to call out those that aren't even engaging in this conversation and somehow think it's someone else's responsibility, not just on homelessness, but on housing as well. >>someone who is engaging in that conversation is san jose mayor matt mehan. >>i'm very aligned with the governor on his announcement today, and this notion that we cannot allow for camping by choice. permanent encampments are very corrosive for society. as you know, we already do hundreds of encampment abatements per year. >>mehan
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says, ending what he calls the era of encampments has been his top priority since taking office. and the city is looking to add teeth to its approach, including a policy to arrest people who repeatedly refuse the offer of a bed at a shelter. and he says it's the state's responsibility to make sure that san jose isn't alone in the effort. >>only the state can ensure that every city, every county, does its fair share and that we have a a uniform set of policies and laws that allow us to intervene and incentivize people to come indoors. most people say yes and they're grateful for it. i think we should be especially concerned about those who say no repeatedly. >>but as he was saying that a group of homeless advocates were gathered outside protesting against the city's position that homelessness is some kind of choice. >>if our economy hadn't tanked, if people hadn't lost so many jobs during covid, if people hadn't gotten sick, this wouldn't be happening. there aren't people out there, substantial amounts
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of people living out there because they like it, because it's great living out there in the cold and the wet and being exposed to the elements of all the people around you. it's not like a great choice. >>sean cartwright is founder of a homeless advocacy group. she believes the push by newsom to shut down encampments across the state has more to do with personal politics than it does camping. >>it's been obvious to many people that the governor is posturing so that he can run for higher office, much like mayor mehan is posturing so he can run for higher office. so the governor has been seen as a liberal who has been soft on homelessness. and so now he's got to get hard on homelessness so he can run and ditch all these homeless people. they're both doing the same thing. they're ditching homeless people, getting hard on homeless people so that they can get out of here. >>there is a concern that if cities do not adopt newsom's ordinance, it could lead to the denial of homeless funding. the governor says that's not currently the case, but he does seem intent on getting everyone on board with the move to shut
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down the encampments. >>the governor's model ordinance comes after last year's u.s. supreme court ruling that said cities could enforce camping bans and clear out encampments, even if space isn't available in shelters. and over in oakland, crews moved to clear out a major encampment today. this was on east 12th street near fruitvale avenue. the city estimates 79 people live there. homeless advocates think that number is actually higher than that. city officials tell us 41 people have accepted offers for temporary shelter in a converted hotel. one woman who has lived in this place for around four years, says she was only able to put her name on a wait list for housing. >>they said that all the rooms are filled up like they don't have as much housing as they say they do. we whenever they're done putting these people in rooms, they won't be able to get a room. they should offer me a room. they took my house from me. >>oakland's unsheltered homeless population actually grew by more than 9.5% from
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2022 to 2024. that is in spite of an 11% drop in all of alameda county over that same time period. more than half the county's homeless population lives in oakland. today, homeless families stopped by san francisco city hall to deliver cards written by children asking mayor daniel lurie for empathy. they say the city should end its policy limiting shelter stays for families to 90 days. our amanda hari spoke to one woman who is desperately trying to provide stability for her two daughters. >>an action. >>mothers experiencing homelessness gathered outside city hall to ask mayor daniel lurie for a simple, belated mother's day gift. help! >>we're struggling, but we're struggling together. >>sadie bermudez immigrated from nicaragua just 15 months ago. she told her story with the help of an interpreter. she has two daughters in middle school. since they arrived, they've been struggling to find
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a home they can afford. >>it's been a lot of instability. i've stayed in different places for a month, three months. then i go somewhere else. >>right now, someone she met at church is allowing her and her family to share their studio apartment. but that's not a permanent solution. but neither are homeless shelters. the department of homelessness currently has a policy of evicting families with children after they spend 90 days in a city shelter. members of the united educators of san francisco came out to stand beside the mothers, hoping to change that. >>well, we're hoping we'll come out of this, is that we can continue having dialog with mayor lurie and the department of homelessness to address and create solutions for these families. >>jerry almanza has been teaching in the sfusd school system for years. she says she can tell when a child is experiencing homelessness. >>many of our students are coming to school hungry, sleepy, the the shelter in
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place provides a soup. the current policy provides a super stressful environment for our families, who are constantly they're all constantly looking for housing and working. >>district nine supervisor jackie fielder thinks there's a simple solution to the problem. >>we can end family homelessness in san francisco. >>she promised to bring forward a proposal, which includes asking the mayor and her colleagues to put $45 million towards housing resources. >>with less than 1% of our general fund, we can house 2000 families. that is necessary, and it is possible. >>children impacted by homelessness made cards for the mayor, and they delivered them to his office. bermudez says she hopes he will take a good look at them. >>we want to try to reach that human side of him and i think together with our hearts and the administrative portion of
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it, we can improve a lot of lives. >>a california based cannabis certification company is partnering with cal state east bay to train and certify more of their students. they just kicked off their next cohort of classes, and the goal is to fill gaps in the cannabis workforce. our sooji nam met a pacifica woman who decided to take the course as a late career shift. >>gina ohara has been a consultant and technical writer for traditional pharmaceutical companies for the past 30 years, but she was up for a change and soon found herself diving into the cannabis industry. >>when it became legalized here. and lots of friends and things were going to dispensaries and stuff began trying things. but i was more interested in the medicinal aspects. >>ohara discovered green flower's cannabis certification course at cal state east bay, a six month online program. >>cannabis plant itself and how it works in the body and stuff.
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after everyone takes that, you can kind of specialize into different fields. >>different fields like agriculture, medicine and product development. ohara is one of more than 70 cal state east bay students who passed the course. >>there's my certificate. that i got once i was done. >>she is a part of green flower's push to fill the job gap in the cannabis industry. according to a recent report, there were more than 78,000 cannabis market jobs in the state last year, a potentially alarming trend. >>there is some compression happening in the cannabis industry here in california, but it doesn't mean that there's still a real dearth of opportunity. >>opportunities. green flower ceo max simon is optimistic his students will take in an industry that is facing some pushback. >>still have a federal contradiction to the state laws, and that creates all sorts of challenges from a banking or a compliance or a fundraising standpoint. i actually think we're very, very close to some federal reform, which will fundamentally change
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the industry in pretty dramatic ways. >>according to the 2024 california cannabis market report, the number of active licenses decreased by 18% last year. some of those reasons increased costs, regulatory compliance and competition with unlicensed cannabis markets. but simon says his company's online program and network will be a catalyst to boost the workforce in california. >>whether you're a lawyer or a doctor or a finance specialist or an investment banker that take these programs and then add cannabis to their practice. >>and o'hara fits right in. in addition to working in biotech, she is now actively looking for contract jobs in the cannabis industry. >>people like me who've already done some things. but this is just another interesting twist that i hopefully can use my previous skills >>with. o'hara hopes to inspire others that it's never too late to try something new, even in the midst of your career, because you never know where it will take you next.
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>>so if this sounds interesting, cal state east bay says the course starts up again every 6 to 8 weeks, and it is back in july. parents of two young children could be facing charges months after a tense standoff between police and the kids as they were playing with a gun. how police were able to deescalate that situation without anyone getting hurt. and there's a simple but firm message from bay area school districts to students thinking about taking part in a new tiktok challenge. don't. >>that's pretty good advice about any tiktok challenge. we're still tracking a few showers making their way through the santa cruz mountains, likely the last measurable rain that we are going to see this season. we're tracking a warm up, though later this week. details coming up in first alert weather. >>santa rosa police are trying to track down a bank robbery suspect, but his getup is what's getting a lot of attention on social media.
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>>as a parent, this next story is both shocking and incredibly scary. drone video is giving us a look at a tense standoff. it was in new mexico back in february. there were two kids, seven and nine years old, playing with a loaded gun and hiding from deputies. >>drop it now. drop it. i don't even have a gun.
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>>wow. so the deputies were trying to talk with the children for five minutes before they fired a beanbag at the wall, and then they moved in to grab the gun. now the sheriff's office is considering filing charges against the parents of those two kids. >>we're dealing with a seven and a nine year old. so now we're looking at the adult side, how they had the firearm. are they going to be charged with? you're probably looking at the benny hargrove law. we're looking into all of that. >>so the benny hargrove gun safety act was passed in 2023, in new mexico, allowing for parents to be held responsible when a child gets ahold of a gun, a dangerous new tiktok challenge involving school issued laptops is making the rounds online, and at least two bay area school districts have a stern warning for students don't even try it. the challenge involves putting metal objects into the ports of laptops, causing them to start smoking. that is exactly what happened in belleville, new jersey last week. a 15 year old student stuck lead from a mechanical pencil into his laptop. the entire building had to be evacuated. his fellow
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students were not amused. >>i was pretty mad, actually, because i was taking the ap stats test and it got canceled because of it. i have to wait two weeks now to retake it. that could have probably caused a bigger fire than there was. papers all around the place in the video. >>authorities say the teen is now charged with arson and criminal mischief. firefighters say the problem with lithium ion batteries, even if the fire is out, they can reignite. tiktok has blocked the search option for chromebook fires here in the bay area, petaluma city schools and livermore valley joint unified both sent letters to parents and said any student found tampering with their school issued laptop would be disciplined and would have to pay for the damage. >>first alert weather powered by kia. learn more at kia. kia. movement that inspires. >>yeah, so recovering from that last >>story a little bit >>because i don't i cannot imagine why anyone would think that was a good idea. certainly if it was your own laptop. but
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even if it was a school laptop, i don't see the appeal. >>let's keep lowering the bar more and more. >>the bar is quite low. there's >>a space >>for >>that. yeah. >>where the bar. is, >>and >>it's there >>under the >>earth. >>yes. let's talk weather. we had a little bit of moisture across the area today. some showers across the bay area for the probably the last time this spring. never say never when it comes to maybe a late spring chance of showers. let's look at the radar replay. over the past six hours, and want to take a look at the few blips that we've been tracking on the radar over the course of the evening. they've been few and far between, but there have been at least a few sprinkles here and there, and a few sprinkles in the marin headlands, with the latest radar scan working their way farther and farther to the east. those are going to quiet down as we head through the rest of tonight. there is an outside chance of a pop up shower still during the day tomorrow, but we'll be keeping an eye on that as we head through the day. just to be on the safe side, i don't think it's going to be a big concern. looking outside from san jose, seeing plenty of cloud cover out there at the moment, temperatures still running in the low to mid 50s. that layer of clouds is going to hold at
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least some warmth near ground level. our temperatures today were a good ten degrees below average on an average basis across the entire bay area. not going to be quite that chilly tomorrow though. we are going to see more breaks in the cloud cover a little earlier in the day, and that's going to help us to warm up. let's check out the fog, which is going to spread out as we head through the rest of tonight. that moisture that fell this morning evaporating into the lowest levels of the atmosphere. and we're going to have some low cloud cover, even in the inland valleys to begin the day on tuesday. but it's not going to last long in those inland valleys and even at the coast. i think you're going to see the sunshine breaking through as we head towards late morning. that could help your temperatures out a whole lot, but just enjoy that sunshine while it is with us tomorrow. checking out tomorrow's forecast. highs closer to normal. everybody should be within about five degrees of average near 60 degrees along the coast. mid 60s for san francisco and oakland. almost precisely normal for the 13th of may, a little below average farther inland, a mix of upper 60s and low 70s for the north bay mid 70s in fairfield, you'll be one of the warm spots with temperatures east of the oakland hills running mostly in the low 70s as well, and right
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at 70 degrees in the santa clara valley. one more day of those slightly below average temperatures, and then we start to warm up to a greater extent, beginning already on wednesday. let's take a look at the reason why. and it's the winds as we head through the next couple of days tracking every six hours. you see a lot of orange squares on our wind chart here for tomorrow, indicating 20 to 30 mile an hour gusts across the whole bay area, and it's an onshore breeze. we'll see the winds lighter and the onshore breeze is going to take a little bit longer to kick in on wednesday, which is why temperatures inland are going to return to basically what's normal for this time of year. using livermore as an example, back up to the mid 70s on wednesday and then a little two day warm spell around 80 degrees thursday and friday. big drop in temperatures with northerly winds on saturday and then we climb. mid to upper 80s by early next week, and even some low 90s at the tail end of the seven day forecast. and after the last of those showers quiets down tonight, there are no rain chances in the forecast, not just for the next seven days, but likely for the next couple of weeks. let's
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take a look at the seven day forecast. and we will start along the coast where temperatures are going to kind of fluctuate between the upper 50s and low 60s. not a whole lot of variation, but the feature to notice there is all that fog wednesday, thursday, friday and saturday we're going to have widespread low cloud cover and fog for coastal parts of the bay area. temperatures around the bay. a little more variation. we're going to see temperatures going from the 60s tomorrow to the 70s for a couple of days, thursday and friday, and then that brief cooldown on saturday before we start climbing again by sunday and monday. really, next monday marks the beginning of that longer term warm up that's going to be most noticeable, of course, inland, when temperatures hit back up into the mid 80s, it's just beyond the seven day forecast when those inland highs are more likely to get up to around or above 90 degrees for us here with a check of sports. >>all right. here we go. straight ahead in sports. giant streak is going the wrong way. and the golden state warriors are up against it. now having done something for the second time in the steve kerr era.
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>>this friday, the golden state valkyries will play their first ever regular season game in front of a packed house at chase center. the team wrapped up preseason play last night with a win over the phoenix mercury. the valkyries can already boast a strong and supportive fan base. more than 10,000 fans have purchased season tickets for the team's first season in the w. one family says they jumped at the chance to sign up and secure their seats. they've been women's basketball fans their whole lives, and they're looking forward to making new memories with the latest team. >>i liked it a lot and i'm super excited because it's my first valkyries game. it's a. good community vibe. see people with kids out on a school night, so it's great. i'm hoping we win as much as possible. i hope that we build
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a community. >>cbs news. the area is the home of the golden state valkyries. more than 30 games will air on pix. plus, we have also got a weekly show with behind the scenes access for you. very excited about that. obviously, while that's going on, the nba, we were being optimistic about the warriors. vern, you're a glass half full guy >>i >>am okay. do we still feel that >>way? i am more confident that we're going to have a clean valkyrie show tomorrow than i am about steph curry returning for a game five. how do you like that? you can weigh it like that. by the way, shout out section 126 at chase center tonight. they were loud. they were vocal. shout out to you. all right. for the second time in the steve kerr era, the warriors have lost three straight playoff games. the first one cost him the 2016 nba finals. tonight hosted the timberwolves at a game for the hole they dug for themselves. got a little deeper. warriors needed the scoring of playoff. jimmy didn't get it. 14 points
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on nine shots and jonathan kuminga was the best warriors player on the floor. i didn't stutter. here's a late first quarter tough lay in dubs. up three. he scored 23 off the bench and the warriors scored ten straight. buddy hield a one man fast break here. this for another warriors lead. but let's get to the turning point. final play of the half. here's how anthony edwards closed it a 30 footer. and golden state still led by two until they didn't ant-man drew a crowd in a tie game and got this shot to somehow go and drew a foul. gave minnesota the lead six point lead. edwards again from deep. and then the next time down did it again. minnesota scored 17 in a row. edwards finished with 30, 20 and seven minutes late in the quarter. hill's pass picked off by jaden mcdaniels, who knew how to finish, extended the lead to 20. minnesota outscored golden
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state 3917, in the third and won it 117, 110 and have a31 series lead and dub nation is hopeful steph curry can return for game five on wednesday. >>give up 117 points without steph, you probably losing because the likelihood that we're going to score 117 points without him is not that high. if he's in a place where he can play, i'm sure he will. and him and rick and everybody will figure that out. but we don't need superman to play the long game. so if he can, we know he will. but there's no pressure. we got to figure out how to win, whether he play or not. >>all right. over in the a's, celtics star jayson tatum the spotlight for the wrong reasons. replay of him injuring his right leg at the knicks had to be helped off the floor. celtics unraveled in the eastern conference game for new york's jalen brunson was relentless. scored 39 in the knicks, rallied from down 14 in
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the third and won it 121, 113. they have a31 series lead on the defending champs. meantime, the dallas mavericks with a 1.8% chance of winning, won the nba draft lottery and the top pick in next month's draft, expected to be duke star cooper flagg, who was there to see it happen. this comes three months after dallas stunned everyone by trading away luka doncic to the lakers and put general manager nico harrison on the hot seat. earthquake star josef martinez threw out the first pitch before the giants hosted the diamondbacks top five. corbin carroll took justin verlander the distance into the arizona bullpen. this was his second homer of the game, gave the d-backs a two nothing lead, now two one bottom eight tying run on elliott ramos ripped a liner and lourdes gurriel made a leaping catch on the warning track. arizona won it 2 to 1. giants have lost four straight
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and have scored just nine runs during the skid, so every team, they go through these slides, but in a competitive division like the west can't afford to lose much ground. the giants record 24 and 18, three and a half >>out >>of first place sarah >>okay. all right. so we'll recover and be hopeful about the warriors i'm assuming. >>fingers crossed. but across the toes too. >>yeah okay. that's burns way of saying maybe we should worry. normally you don't think of a blanket as part of your wardrobe to go to the bank, but one guy did while trying to hide his identity. >>it kind of overshadows a great
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help to identify and track down a bank robbery suspect. but it could be a little harder than you might think. it's because the suspect wrapped themselves up in a huge blanket. perhaps taking a shortcut to the art of disguise. santa rosa police say the suspect walked into the exchange bank on montgomery drive saturday morning. the man allegedly pointed a gun at a teller, demanded cash, and then left the bank, walking after being given some amount of money. police didn't say how much he got away with, but they are giving a reward of up to $2,500 for anyone who helps them get the blanketed man in custody. unfortunately for investigators, no one seems to know >>who. the suspect. >>is, but they have some ideas. one person commenting pretty sure i recognize this guy from a scooby-doo episode. they're asking, we've got linus robbing banks now. some used it as an opportunity to poke fun at the bank's lack of high quality cameras, saying the mars rover sends back higher resolution photos from the red planet. and this comment looks like harry potter. how are we supposed to identify that? another simply called it a poltergeist, while
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someone else said they might have seen the guy last halloween. >>poltergeist is pretty clever. i like >>that yes, yes. comment section did not disappoint on. this >>one. and i'm sure it's people chiming in from all across the. land >>right >>now. yeah, not >>just santa >>rosa, not. just sonoma >>county. yeah, all across. a good cross section. tiktok comments are i feel like top tier. and then that one was competitive. >>that was pretty >>good. put it >>up there. >>thanks for watching. the late show with stephen colbert is coming up next. we will see you tomorrow. >> the president preparing to accept a $400 million gift from qatar. a luxury jumbo jet to serve as air force one and then for his personal use. speaker raises many, many eyebrows to have sort of this deal at all.
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