tv The Late News With Sara Donchey CBS June 3, 2025 11:00pm-11:35pm PDT
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>now at 11. parents and students at one bay area school at a loss. >i hope >that >>what happens here isn't going to be what >happened >>for my freshman >year. the decision not to keep two employees that has some worried about their future, and from threats to fines, the trump administration is giving california a deadline to make changes to high school sports or pay up. >do >>this. it's >it's >>just >>vile. >>then the efforts underway to remove a san francisco icon's legacy from a military ship. the backlash the move is
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already receiving. plus, a dark chapter in american history brought to light. the monument recognizing east bay families who were forced from their homes. >devin>hi, i'm devin fehely. sarah has the night off now. we start today with a controversy out of a school district board meeting in the north bay. the contracts of two high school employees were at the center of a heated debate. parents say that these two consultants have made a measurable difference for black students, but district leaders disagreed. amanda hari has details. >the fight that racial resegregation money. >it was standing room only at the tamalpais union high school district board meeting, as the fate of two contract workers were on the line. the community says in just a year, they've improved the experience for black and brown students. >overall, just unsafe for
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the people of color at tamalpais high school, and they made it just a way safer and enjoyable place. >roman cole is a sophomore. he's enjoying school now. >yes. for sure. >but his freshman year was a different story. he didn't want to go. he says some students would call kids of color racial slurs, and that there was even a photo circulating online of a girl with one written on her face. >some people's moms were literally moving them to different schools. like last year, like some other people of color, kids are not here anymore because of the situation at sam. last year. >in august of 2024, contractors tenisha tate austin and paul austin were brought in. they provide support to students of color by mentoring, working to improve grades and creating a feeling of belonging. nearly 40 people took to the podium to express their support. >if you look up the numbers, tam, right now black students are doing better than any black students in any district, in
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any school in this district. numbers don't lie. >last year, 53% of black and biracial students had at least one d or worse grade. this year, that number has improved by more than 15%. at the meeting, representatives from the district administration recommended extending their contracts one year. but board president cynthia roenisch did not agree. >i find it hard that an educator gets up and makes a recommendation that we need to pay $250,000 for half time work. >throughout her remarks, the crowd got upset. >if the audience cannot be respectful. i'm going to ask you to leave. >she continued, arguing, they never should have been contracted in the first place. >and going back and looking at it, i'm going to say we inappropriately approved those consultant contracts because the services that were provided are not specialized services.
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they are services that are included in the job description of the assistant principals of the dean of teachers, of counselors. >by a vote of 3 to 2, tate, austin and austin's contracts were not renewed. >all those in favor, please say aye. all those opposed, please say nay. the motion fails. 3 to 2. >cole says he was shocked by the decision and questions what will happen next. >it's honestly a shame. i don't know what we are going to do next year, and i hope that what happens next year isn't going to be what happened for my freshman year. >devin>the trump administration is now threatening california with hefty fines and legal action over its policy allowing transgender athletes in girls sports. it follows trans athlete abby hernandez's performance at the state high school track and field finals this weekend. she won two events and placed second in another. the justice department sent a letter to california public schools calling the state's policy unconstitutional
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under the 14th amendment, which prohibits discrimination based on .... the state has until june 9th. that's next monday to certify that it will ban trans athletes. a student who shared the silver medal with hernandez in the long jump this weekend is speaking out. brooke white says that she was impressed by the way that hernandez handled the protests and the criticism. >it made me really emotional seeing how people could be so hateful to a 16 year old girl. it also eased me a lot to talk to abby personally and see how she was handling the situation as a rock star, like just, you know, she prayed. and i'm pretty sure all three events. >devin>last week, the california interscholastic federation announced a new policy allowing an additional student to compete and to meddle in the events where hernandez qualified. this week, the state senate passed two additional bills aimed at expanding trans rights. sb 59 requires courts to seal records related to gender change, petitions, and sb 497 would
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require police to have a warrant to access the state's health care database to see who is being prescribed testosterone. both bills are now going to the assembly. at least one democrat running for california's governor's office is weighing in on this controversy. former congresswoman katie porter says the state fixed the issue and that the president should turn his focus someplace else. >there are issues of fairness here. i think the question is, whose job is this to fix? do we think the leader of the free world, donald trump, should be weighing in repeatedly and aggressively threatening to find the largest state in the country, the fourth largest economy in the world, interfering with everybody in california, threatening our educational system, upsetting parents because he doesn't trust a sporting body to solve the problem. and sports bodies set all kinds of rules. >devin>the navy is planning to rename the usns harvey milk. it was named after the slain gay rights leader. milk served as a diving officer in the 50s, but
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eventually resigned after being questioned about his sexual orientation. his family for years fought to have his legacy recognized by the navy. they eventually got their wish along with a big honor. the navy christened and launched the usns harvey milk in san diego back in 2021. the mood at the time was celebratory, but today it's a much different story. kenny choi has reaction from local leaders. >just last year, the usns harvey milk made its way under the golden gate bridge, coming into port in the home city of its namesake. the replenishment oiler is designed to support carrier strike groups at sea. the usns harvey milk was christened in 2021, representing a significant step toward inclusivity within the armed forces. now, that name may be in jeopardy. the memo by the trump administration today said the renaming of naval ships was to realign the u.s. military with trump administration priorities of, quote, reestablishing the warrior culture. caroline
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heldman is a political science professor at occidental college. >it's a clear sign, i think, that the administration is saying that these contributions from these decorated americans are not valuable. it's really a slap in the face of folks who have fought for so long to have marginalized voices included. >state senator scott wiener didn't mince words when speaking about what renaming the vessel would mean for the lgbtq community. >harvey milk was a hero. he died for our community. he is an icon in the lgbtq community and lgbtq veterans worked for years to get this ship named for him and for them to, for trump and his his minions to do this during pride month. it's it's just vile. >we got a tour of the oiler back in march of 2024, with speaker nancy pelosi. in a statement today, pelosi telling cbs news, our military is the
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most powerful in the world, but this spiteful move does not strengthen our national security or the warrior ethos. instead, it is a surrender of a fundamental american value to honor the legacy of those who worked to build a better country. on that tour, milk's nephew and lgbtq activist stuart milk spoke about the significance of the ship being named after his uncle. >i mean, it's it is astonishing, in some ways to think that, that we have come this far, but it's a reminder that it's a continual work in progress because we have made so many steps forward. but for instance, on women's rights, we're moving backwards. and so thomas jefferson famously asked, when does the battle for equality and justice end? he said, it doesn't. it requires constant vigilance. and i think that this ship is a reminder. >devin>harvey milk's nephew sent us a new statement on behalf of his family. it reads harvey milk's legacy is certainly enhanced and celebrated by a us naval ship.
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however, his legacy will not be silenced or diminished by the renaming of that naval ship. rather, such an action would only serve to prove that harvey milk still hope will continue to endure and inspire across the globe. the navy has also recommended renaming ships named for labor rights pioneers cesar chavez and dolores huerta, and ships named for harriet tubman and ruth bader ginsburg. a new book will serve as a lasting monument for japanese americans locked up in camps during the second world war. area survivor reflect on his past and what it can teach us about today's political climate. >paul>today was another day of almost exactly normal. early june temperatures. everybody within about three degrees on either side of our june 3rd averages. and there's more of this to come. we're looking through the rest of the workweek and into the upcoming weekend. coming up in the first alert forecast.
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japanese immigrants, but now a national monument in the form of a book has been created to commemorate the internees. this afternoon, a bay area man had a surprise encounter with his own past. john ramos has that story. >this >>is. the berkeley historical society is confronting the city's troubled past when it comes to japanese americans, with a special exhibit entitled roots, removal and resistance. it has identified the names of every single resident forcibly removed to internment camps following phr's infamous executive order 9066. >well, i think what it does is it allows us to reconstruct the lives of the more than 1200 people who lived in berkeley before this evacuation happened, and it brings up a lot of memories, especially given the situation currently with immigrant families. when we see the names of people that were forcibly removed by an executive order,
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we see the possibility that it could happen again. and one of the things we're hoping is that it never happens again. >but in some ways it is happening again. and that is why the irei cho book of names is so haunting. the project, begun by usc professor duncan williams, seeks to list in one book everyone who was ever confined in the japanese internment camps. >what happened back in world war two was that the federal government targeted a. community labeled it as a threat to national security, enforced a regime of forced removal and unjust incarceration on an entire community that didn't, you know, without any kind of due process. and we redress that by giving dignity and personhood to each individual, differentiated by their names. >family members of internees, including berkeley's mayor, adina ishii, were
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invited to place a small remembrance stamp beneath the names of loved ones. but there was one individual in the audience who had a more personal experience. eizo kobayashi is now 93, but was nine years old when his family was put on a bus from berkeley to the tanforan collection center, and later sent to an internment camp in utah. i've known azo for years, so it seems strange when he and his daughter tomiko began placing stamps under parents and grandparents, and azo was actually able to mark his own name as well. >what does it feel like to find your own name in this? i know he's part of history. john. >the camp was an experience that has shaped his entire life, but despite the extreme injustice of it all, and maybe because of it, azo has never taken his citizenship for granted, like the rest of us often do. >and we just want to show everyone that our loyalty and our devotion was here in the
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united states, even through the war. that, but we have to keep it that way, you know that we have to. is there a lesson in that. for today? we have to learn a lesson from the internment and realize that this should never happen again. internment should never happen again. >as they marked name after name, the memories of those times came flooding back. >what it does is it lets everyone know that we survived and we all made it. and we're all proud to be here in america. >it seems like something he would want to forget, but it is in remembering that the bitterness can be replaced with a sense of purpose to make sure it never happens again. >devin>the book of names is touring the country. it's being displayed in cities across the country and at every internment camp site. the goal is eventually to have a stamp under every single one of the names in that book. since she hatched back in march,
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thousands of people have tuned in to this live cam near big bear lake, eagerly waiting to see gizmo the eagle when she would finally spread her wings and leave the nest. but like many of us humans, she had to wait and watch her big sister do it first. gizmo's big sister sunny took flight for the first time yesterday. now, fans of the family of eagles believe that gizmo will join her in the sky any day now. some bird watchers even ventured to big bear in person, hoping to get a glimpse of this feathered family. >i'm hoping to see him fly, even down to the water, to teach him how to how to hunt. kind of epitome for everybody's life, you know, just something to really look forward to. take the jump, take the risk and let it rip. >devin>it is not entirely clear how far sunny has gone, but experts believe that she is going to be back. and like any good parent, their mom and dad, jackie and shadow will be there and still providing meals. meanwhile, in santa barbara county. nature came a little close for comfort in the town of orcutt, where a black bear
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was seen wandering the streets of the small town police and the department of fish and wildlife eventually managed to corner the bear, tranquilize it, and take it far away from the town. >first alert weather powered by kia. learn more at wkyc.com. kia movement that inspires. >devin>we're joined now by chief meteorologist paul hagan. we saw a little bit of hazy sky. we've >paul>got >>a little bit of smoke that's drifting into our area. >paul>just a fraction of the smoke from those canadian wildfires drifting down towards us, but the majority of it east of the rocky mountains. that's where they really had to deal with the bad air quality. our air quality has been fine at ground level because the winds have remained pretty strong, and we still have the marine layer helping us out. that's going to remain the case as we head through the rest of this week. in fact, let's take a look at the current satellite perspective. we'll look at the whole west coast, and you can see that we're not the only part of the west coast that has that well established marine layer in place that shows up in the bluish white clouds, is very close to ground level or
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sea level, as the case may be. let's come in for a closer look at just the bay area, and you can see that the fog is pushing a little bit farther across san francisco and into parts of the north bay already, and it's going to make more of a push as we head through. the rest of tonight. could be a factor for the morning commute. might want to allow just a couple of extra minutes on the way out the door. just to be on the safe side. you can definitely see that fog as we look outside from the top of the mark hopkins hotel. fog pushing across the bay, temperatures dropping off kind of evening out. the differences that we had across the bay area highs were in the 60s, 70s and 80s across the bay area. now everybody is in the 50s and 60s, warm spot, 65 degrees in concord, the cool spot, 54 degrees in santa rosa, near one of the few spots that will actually drop down into the upper 40s by early tomorrow morning. let's track the fog as we head through the rest of tonight, and it will become more widespread, especially as we look to the inland valleys of the north bay and the santa clara valley. but i don't think it's going to make too much of an intrusion across the oakland hills and into the interior valleys of the east bay, and
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where the fog is present inland, it's not going to last long. we'll freeze the map here at noon, and by that point, the fog will have retreated to the coast. still, that little channel of fog reaching right through the golden gate. but that's going to be about it even along the coast. i think you are going to see some sunshine peeking through the clouds by tomorrow afternoon. it's not going to have too much of an impact on your high temperatures, though. for most of us, we're talking about high temperatures within 3 or 4 degrees of what's normal for this time of year. much like today, maybe a couple degrees warmer in the santa clara valley, low to mid 80s there. also low to mid 80s inland in the east bay. normally warm for this time of year. real mix of temperatures around the bay, which is what we expect when we get a southwesterly onshore winds. so 60 in the city, low 70s in oakland but upper 70s for fremont and low 80s in redwood city because the higher elevations of the peninsula are going to block that marine air from making its way towards you along the coast, onshore breeze is onshore breeze low 60s there with temperatures in the north bay. that's where that southwesterly wind can make its way through the gaps in the terrain and keep temperatures in the low to mid 70s. except
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healdsburg, you're going to climb all the way up into the mid 80s. by tomorrow afternoon. not much change to our temperatures on a day by day basis as we head through the extended forecast inland, with the exception of the north bay, where you'll be about 5 or 6 degrees cooler than these readings we're talking about mostly the lower half of the 80s for those inland highs through the middle of next week, maybe a little bit cooler by next tuesday and wednesday. but even the coolest days in sight, like the warmest days, only about 3 to 5 degrees below average, we're going to see temperatures around the bay running right around 70 degrees typical for this time of year, and temperatures at the coast. you do get a couple of days that are slightly warmer, and they happen to line up with the weekend all the way up to the mid 60s. not a huge departure from where you typically are this time of year, but maybe a little bit more sunshine along the coast this weekend as well. >vern>i will take it. hey, straight ahead in sports. got a couple questions. what's up with the 40 niners? what's up with the giants? fundamental and situational hitting wasn't
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>devin>the valkyries are back in action on thursday on our sister station picks. plus, you can watch golden state try to snap a three game losing streak when they take on the phoenix mercury. coverage starts at 630 on channel 44. cable 12. so >vern>with your host, a pregame. mwah. >devin>that's right. >vern>got a vial it up. >devin>yeah. that's right. man, it takes a little time for a for a new team to gel. >vern>it does, it does. it's going to take a little time for these giants bats to wake up, devin? oh, man. you know what? nobody feels worse than those guys in the clubhouse tonight. i can guarantee you that. and no time for the players to dwell on this, devin. they got to get right back at it on wednesday. hey, fans, i can understand the need to process what happened. you're closer. had not given up a run since early april. throw all that in a blender. comes out as a
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second straight extra inning loss. don't you just love the bay area? so much to do during a game? now you want the giants offense tonight right here elliott ramos a bottom third big fly with a man on. we call this a two run homer. it was two nothing. see you later right. well great pitching from starter landon rupe six and a third scoreless innings. and oh look at gerard encarnacion. whoa! the big man. great grab. kill the padres! rally in the fourth. and then the ninth. oh, the walks loaded him up. and manny machado four for four tonight. huge hit. two runs scored to tie it. camila duvall had been money again. no runs allowed since april 7th. padres took the lead in the top of the 10th. giants hit the tying run at third, and the slumping jeong, who grounded out to end the game. san diego won it 3 to 2. that's now 16 games in a row. san francisco has failed to score more than four runs.
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let's go up tempo. the w and the valkyries julie van lose. teammates have quickly learned to be ready for the ball when she's leading the fast break. her passing has been huge with the crowd. great for coach nick bosa when she can see it. >i'm small so sometimes i can't see like what they see. no, i'm being really serious. like sometimes i can't see what they see. so then when i see it sail, i'm like, oh, there, there it is. so then when i see it on film, i'm like, oh, that's what julie saw. so i'm just being honest. like i'm trying to maybe i have to wear platform shoes, i don't know. >vern>oh come on coach. hey, i can feel you. hey nfl in the 40 niners. quarterback brock purdy has been taking part in his first off season training since signing that $265 million extension last month. now, despite the pay raise, kyle shanahan says the quarterback has remained the same guy. >i was on vacation. we were out of town. and so i called him from a boat on saturday or
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sunday, whenever that was, just to congratulate him. and we just mess around with each other for a couple of minutes and haven't talked to him about it since. you know, brock, he's been the same since day one. you like to say that about a lot of people and we're never lying up here or anything. but brock is as much like that as any football player i've met. but any person i've met. >vern>yeah, i'm not going to fight you on that one, but how about it, devin? 265 million. would it change you a little bit? >devin>i think it would change my zip code, man. i really do. >vern>it would change the bounce in my step. i'd be strutting. >devin>i think i saw brock purdy at the target because i kind of live over by the stadium. right? >vern>okay. >>he just seemed like. a regular guy. he seemed such a nice regular guy. >vern>really approachable. >devin>yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. all right, vern, thank you so much. when life gives you potholes, what do you do? well, if your people in this new orleans neighborhood, you create your own art installation. details ahead.
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the city of new orleans, a city that is dear to my heart, just got back from it last week. it is known for its rich history, for the food, for the drinks, for the. nightlife. for the music, and much, much more. and now it has another offering a pothole zoo. the neighborhood safari is the work of a few people there, frustrated by constant sinkholes and potholes and every other infrastructure headache. so they decided to do a little decorating and bring attention to their plight. now, one man says that the transformation happened in the middle of the night. like a lot of things in new orleans, under the cover of darkness. >it was a late night
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operation, and the next day people were very surprised children came by. people said a zoo should have more than just flamingos. and so they started adding their own little, animals. like the laugh and stuff at it. and it's pretty cool. >devin>now that's how the zoo was born. the street has needed work for the last couple of years, but neighbors say it's not happening fast enough for them. and their concerns, they say, are going unheard. the pothole that's near the so-called zoo has been around for five months, with no timetable on when it's going to get filled. >we like it repaired because that's what's supposed to happen in a normal city, but it's been fun for now. you know, i think after a while it would be time to retire the zoo. plus, you know, we don't want to compete with the real zoo. >devin>the sewer and water board of new orleans says that they have hired a contractor to address the sewer main, but they're still trying to finalize a repair schedule. the mayor's office added >paul>that >>they're aware of that issue, but they can't speed things up
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either way. now, i would remind people it is a swamp. >paul>yes. >>and a zoo on the best on the best day. so, >paul>yeah. >>you know, >paul>appropriate. looks like more than. >vern>a host. they can't they can't bring that >paul>much money and >vern>just kind >devin>of. you've been to new orleans. you've driven on the streets in new. orleans, >vern>driven. i walk everywhere, >devin>okay. you're a man of the people. >paul>yeah. all right. >devin>well, thank you so much for watching the late show with stephen colbert is next. the news continues streaming on cbs news bay area. good night. >> tulsi gabbard, the nation's highest ranking intelligence official, is considering a major overhaul of president trump's daily briefing. >> the president rarely if ever participates in reading his president's daily brief. >> one suggestion? a video version of the president's daily
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